Don't just do something…sit there!
Don't just sit there…do something!
- Martin Luther King, Jr., National Day of Service
- MLK Day is the only federal holiday designated as a National Day of Service to encourage all Americans to volunteer to improve their communities. Find out how you can get involved.
- MLK Day at The Wright
- 7:30am, Annual Prayer Breakfast (sold out)
- 9:00 -- 5:00pm: special exhibitions all day including MLK Now is The Time, an immersive VR journey in that explores key themes of Dr. King's speech and what they mean today
- Let Freedom Ring: MLK Birthday Celebration
- 5:00pm, Fox Theatre, Detroit
The Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH "KING MLK Birthday Celebration" event will honor Big Sean, Judge Greg Mathis, Bishop J. Drew Sheard, Amy Nederlander And Maha Freij with special tributes to Harry Belafonte and Rev. Charles Adams. Admission gratis.
- 5:00pm, Fox Theatre, Detroit
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Task Force, Inc.
39th Annual Celebration
- 9:00am, Peace Walk, Hope United Methodist Church, 26275 Northwestern Hwy., Southfield
- 11:00am, MLK program, Southfield Pavillion, 26000 Evergreen Road, Southfield
"Taste Fest" to immediately follow MLK program
- Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. @ The Henry Ford
- 9:30am -- 5:00pm, films, performance and song inspired by MLK and the Civil Rights Movement. Admission gratis today.
- Fueling Detroit: MLK Day of Service
- 9:00am -- 2:00pm, Kemeny Recreation, 2260 S. Fort St., Detroit.
Here's where and how you get involved in Wayne State's Americorps MLK Day of Service.
- 9:00am -- 2:00pm, Kemeny Recreation, 2260 S. Fort St., Detroit.
- EMU Driven By The Dream
- Events all week from today to Friday, January 19. See website for specific dates and events.
Yet man is not made to dwell in the valleys of sin and evil; man is made for for: that which is high and noble. When I see how we fight vicious wars and destroy human life on bloody battlefields, I find myself saying: “Man is not made for that.” When I see how we live our lives in selfishness and hate, again I say: “man is not made for that” When I see how we often throw away the precious lives that God has given us in rioteous living, again I find myself saying: “Man is not made for that. My friends, man is made for the stars, created for eternity, born for the everlasting. Man is a child of the almighty God, born for his everlasting fellowship. “What is man that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thou hands; thou hast put all things under his feet. All sheep and oxen, yea and the beasts of the field. The fowl of the air, and the fish of sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the sea.” This is man’s kingly perogative. Who this afternoon will rise out of the dark and dreary valleys of sin and evil, realizing that man’s proper home is in the high mountain of truth, beaty and goodness; yea even where God the eternal dwells forever.
-- MLK, "What Is Man," 1954