Take a second an watch this video. It shows Martin Luther King Jr's lasting effect, and that his messages are as powerful today as they were when he was alive.
The video, produced by The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands in partnership with the Gandhi King Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice (which Jones founded), features several of King's contemporaries.
And they all came to the same conclusions: King transformed their feelings into empowering words and convinced them to make sacrifices, even put their lives on the line.