We’re all flawed human beings. But we can all learn eternally valuable things from each other. Those heralded in history as our civil rights champions were no different. They had a calling on their imperfect lives that drew women and men to their cause. In the murkiness that is our humanity, light breaks through in glorious ways.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was inarguably imperfect but perfect for the time and the unenviable space he occupied. The world, in large part, is the beneficiary of his moral clarity on human equality and justice. As a brown child who grew up in an adoptive diverse home of White, Black, Mixed, Native American, Vietnamese, able and disabled children, his words were for all of us.

His words changed all of us.

Most people know only of his famous I Have a Dream Speechand its ability to stir the soul toward justice. America has seen an undeniable fulfillment of so much of that Dream. The ones who deny this reality are the overpaid academics, celebrities and useless politicians who peddle victimhood when we’re surrounded by so much victory. Of course, there is still material and spiritual poverty that leads to so many different social inequalities. Those are journeys as old as humankind. Contraryto those who seem to relish in living in the discord of the past, we’re not living in the 1960s.

Over the years, I have loved digging into Dr. King’s various speeches. There’s such rich rhetorical........

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