How would King unify America?: #tellusatoday

We asked our followers on Twitter what words of healing the civil rights leader might use today. Comments from Twitter and Facebook are edited for clarity and grammar:

I hope Martin Luther King Jr. would say we all need to stop pointing fingers and come together in peaceful dialog to cause change.

— @mpolack

King would remind us that what unites us is so much greater than what divides us and that our bitter division is no solution for the future.

We must seek wisdom and justice with thoughtful vision.

— @Michelle_4681

In many of Martin Luther King's speeches and letters, he used two unifying factors that appealed to Americans as a whole:

The American spirit embodied in our founding documents.

The spirit of faith embodied in Christianity.

— Douglas Miller

He would say: I have a dream. ... And you are not a victim.

— John Thomas

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