[1]“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of
comfort and convenience,” the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said,
“but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
When I turned 21, I moved to Montgomery,
Alabama to join the Southern Poverty Law Center in its battle against the
Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis. I did not expect to face the same fight three
decades later, or to find a President of the United States praising “very
fine people on both sides.”

My work in Alabama, helping law-enforcement agencies bring hate groups to
justice, remains among the most rewarding of my career. It fueled a
lifelong passion for civil rights—a cause I later pursued at a state civil
rights agency, where I designed and supervised an undercover investigation
of employment discrimination.

I was inspired, then and now, by a leader I’d studied since childhood—a
hero who’d sacrificed his life for the same cause two years after I was
born.

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of
comfort and convenience,” the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said,
“but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

This is a time of challenge and controversy—a time of terror and violence,
when the forces of bigotry draw strength and comfort from the White House
itself. But these threats will not vanish, and our struggle will not end,
when Donald Trump leaves office.

Far more work lies ahead: to combat poverty, to close the racial wealth
gap, to counter the effects of inequality and discrimination from banking
and housing to employment and education, to create a justice system worthy
of the title. Those tasks fall not only to the women and men we elect but
to all of us.

We honor Dr. King today through marches and parades, on a holiday that
bears his name. But we cannot rest until we fulfill his dream.

[2]Andrew Romanoff

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