While still on the road, I received an email from one of my clients Thomas K. Equels. He's a top litigation attorney in Florida who devotes a portion of his practice to representing people in civil rights cases. He sent me the following email regarding MLK Day and the Obama inauguration:
Charles,
I'm still in trial -- wish I could be there. Hope you brought your long johns. Its freezing here -- must be bitter cold there.
When I was a boy I was inspired by Dr. King. You may have asked yourself why for so many years I was volunteer counsel for SCLC & the like. When I was ten we had leaders: JFK, Bobby, Dr. King, who I loved to listen to on the radio. I looked for their speeches in the paper. They actually inspired people. Not like today* - that is until President Obama. You are probably too young to remember the march on DC, it was around '63 I think. In a way MLK's dream of an America where we are all equal before God, law, and most importantly one another, has been realized. This is the consummation of that dream.
It teaches us a lot of things, but perhaps the most important is that when we employ what President Lincoln called the "better angels" of our nature we can rapidly change ourselves for the better both as individuals and as a nation.
All the best! Have a great time.
Tom
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