[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 9 (Friday, January 13, 1995)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 3333-3334]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-1151]



      

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Part VI





The President





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Proclamation 6765--Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday


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Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 9 / Friday, January 13, 1995 / 
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The President  
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                Proclamation 6765 of January 11, 1995

                
Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday, 1995

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation
                As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be 
                rich, even if I have a billion dollars. . . . I can 
                never be what I ought to be until you are what you 
                ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No 
                individual or nation can stand out boasting of being 
                independent. We are interdependent.

                With resolution and eloquence, Dr. Martin Luther King, 
                Jr., stirred people around the globe to action. He 
                dedicated his life to ending the oppression of racism, 
                and his vision of a nation driven by love instead of 
                hate changed our world forever. We are all the 
                beneficiaries of his legacy, and we are grateful.

                Dr. King taught that the goals of civil rights are not 
                merely the goals of any specific group--they are the 
                goals of our Nation. To give people opportunity, to 
                treat them with fairness, and to distinguish them only 
                by their potential--we will continue to work toward 
                these goals as long as people in this Nation are in 
                need of housing, medical care, and subsistence. We will 
                continue to work as long as neighborhoods are ravaged 
                by drugs and violence. We will continue to work as long 
                as any person, because of circumstance of birth, is 
                granted anything less than the full measure of his or 
                her dignity.

                Three decades have passed since Dr. King stood in front 
                of the Lincoln Memorial and told the world of his dream 
                for a future in which our children are judged ``not by 
                the color of their skin, but by the content of their 
                character.'' Today, with an entire generation of voting 
                Americans who did not witness firsthand the great civil 
                rights victories of the 1960s, it is more important 
                than ever to remind the Nation about Dr. King and his 
                inestimable gifts to this country, so that all of us 
                continue to grow in our commitment to justice and 
                equality.

                This year, the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday is 
                celebrated with a national day of service, a call to 
                join together in purpose and care for one another. On 
                this occasion, I urge the citizens of this great 
                country to reflect upon Dr. King's teachings and to 
                take positive and life-affirming action in his memory. 
                Give back to your community, help the homeless, feed 
                the hungry, attend to the sick, give to the needy. In 
                whatever way you choose to serve the public good, do 
                something to make life better for the people around 
                you. As Dr. King said on many occasions, ``Life's most 
                persistent and urgent question is, `What are you doing 
                for others?'''

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United 
                States, do hereby proclaim January 16, 1995, as the 
                ``Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal 
                Holiday.'' [[Page 3334]] 

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                eleventh day of January, in the year of our Lord 
                nineteen hundred and ninety-five, and of the 
                Independence of the United States of America the two 
                hundred and nineteenth.

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