{"id":21308,"date":"2024-01-12T16:20:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T21:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=21308"},"modified":"2024-01-16T14:45:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T19:45:24","slug":"watch-sen-ossoff-commemorates-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-day","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/watch-sen-ossoff-commemorates-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-day\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Sen. Ossoff Commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ussen-my.sharepoint.com\/:v:\/g\/personal\/jake_best_ossoff_senate_gov\/ESAEJVLGaxtLu5367tr30lwB7QP-4xO_h_uPjiP3t1PSCQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;<strong><em>WATCH\/DOWNLOAD: Sen. Ossoff\u2019s MLK Day video message<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Atlanta, Ga.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a video message, Sen. Ossoff urged continued work to reach Dr. King\u2019s vision of The Beloved Community and to celebrate, contemplate, and recommit to the legacy and principles for which Dr. King lived and fought.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe recommit ourselves to building here in our society and around the world The Beloved Community \u2014 when we recognize that our shared humanity is the most important thing; that prejudice, bias, racism, violence, and war are folly, and that only by recommitting to each other\u2019s shared humanity can we build that Beloved Community for which Dr. King and so many strove and for which we continue to strive,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ussen-my.sharepoint.com\/:v:\/g\/personal\/jake_best_ossoff_senate_gov\/ESAEJVLGaxtLu5367tr30lwB7QP-4xO_h_uPjiP3t1PSCQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;<strong>Click here to watch and download Sen. Ossoff\u2019s video remarks.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image003-1024x557.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image003-1024x557.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image003-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image003-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image003-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image003.jpg 1138w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Please find a transcript of Sen. Ossoff\u2019s&nbsp;<\/u><\/strong><strong><u>Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/u><\/strong><strong><u>&nbsp;Day message below:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SEN. OSSOFF:&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cGreetings, this is U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff from Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday we celebrate, contemplate, and recommit to the legacy and principles that Dr. King lived and fought for, along with all those who struggled alongside him in the movement for civil and human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a day when we recommit ourselves to building here in our society and around the world The Beloved Community \u2014 when we recognize that our shared humanity is the most important thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat prejudice, bias, racism, violence, and war are folly, and that only by recommitting to each other\u2019s shared humanity can we build that Beloved Community for which Dr. King and so many strove and for which we continue to strive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor all who are celebrating and honoring this day, whether in church or through service projects across the state of Georgia, across the nation, and around the world, let this be a day not of rest, but of consideration, self-reflection, and of giving back, of recommitting in this year to come to doing all we can to stay true to the values that Dr. King lived and for which he still stands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;WATCH\/DOWNLOAD: Sen. Ossoff\u2019s MLK Day video message Atlanta, Ga.&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In a video message, Sen. 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