So that the pursuit of peace will take precedence …

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is remembered for many things: his commitment to non-violence, to civil rights and civil liberties, to economic justice, against racism, for African-American equality and for his support of workers fighting to organize unions.

Others remember him as a man of peace who spoke out against the Vietnam War and said, “A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: ‘This way of settling differences is not just.’”

Although delivered in 1967, King’s speech gives us pause and inspiration, as does his statement, “We must find new ways to speak for peace … and justice throughout the world …”

We salute Dr. King’s courage and vision. He saw and struggled for an America and world that can be. We pledge in his memory to work to reorder our nation’s priorities “so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war.”

Betty Smith

Blair Bertaccini

Lilo Heller

Harold Heller

Betty Liveright

Richard Giovanoni

Eileen Reardon

George Robbins

Joseph Teague Chandler

Herbert Clements

John G. Hovan

Joyce Provost Wheeler

Marjorie Smith

Leslie Bayless

Pam Bayless

Sue Webb

Juanita Ashby Bey

Joel Wendland

Frances Steadman

Ethel Boyar

Larry McGurty

Zarifah Story

Arlene Brigham

Sam Salmon

Seligson family

Joelle Fishman

Art Perlo

Lydia Tyner

Jarvis Tyner

Evelina Alarcon

Art Rodriguez

Debbie A. Bell

Dave Bell

Rookie Perna

Marilyn Bechtel

Arnold Becchetti

Libero Della Piana

Noel Rabinowitz

Judith Le Blanc

Lee Dlugin

Pat Barile

Wally Kaufman

Juan Lopez

Elena Mora

Scott Marshall

Roberta Wood

Esther Moroze

Carolyn Rummel

Ken BeSaw

Joe Sims

Jen Barnett

Israel Smith

Todd Tollefson

Sam Webb

Denise Winebrenner Edwards

George Edwards

Lorenzo Torrez

Anita Torrez

Sid Taylor

Ann Taylor

Eve Swan

Al Ellis

Pat Ellis

Mark Almberg

Frank Lumpkin

Bea Lumpkin

Shelby Richardson, Jr.

Kevin Lindemann

Cathy Campo

Lance Cohn

Dee Myles

Emile Schepers

Sarah Staggs

Martin Sawma

Buffalo friends of the PWW

Roberto Botello

Grace Botello

Robert Garcia

Paco Cantu

H. Esperanza Garza

John Joseph

Tom Keene

Val Liveoak

Hernando Martinez

Petra Mata

Jose Rodriguez

Graciela I. Sanchez

Andrew Sivak

Celia Joanna Stanford

John W. Stanford

Jane Tuck

Sheila Valdez

Frank Valdez

Herb Clements

Dean Gunderson

Jerry Erickson

Doris G. Marquit

Erwin Marquit

Harry McAllister

Peter Molenaar

Miguel Enloquecer

Rebecca Pera

Janet Quaife

Gary Severson

Charley Smith

Seana Williams

Michael Wood

Lynn Robinson

Amy Hampton

Seth Anderson-Oberman

Aisha Anderson-Oberman

The Baltimore Anti-War Coalition

Gary W. Dotterman

Tilly Teixeira

Ed Teixeira

Maja Johnson

Laura Ross

Nick Burlak

Nell Elperin

Ron Elperin

Wadi’h Halabi

Frances Siegel

Jose Cruz

Albert L Sargis

Grace Bassett

Bill Davis

Danny Rubin

Amina Baraka

Bernice Diskin

Lou Diskin

Frank Novich

The Seligson family

Karol Reitman

Sylvia Bjornson

Barbara Storace

Chris Butters

NYC Poets & Writers Club

Gloria Freedman

Angie Lebowitz

Hans Lilledahl

Rosita B. Johnson

Diane Mohney

John Vago

Ben Sears

Dennis Barnebey

Bill Hood

Frances Gabow

Jenn Perna

Dorothy Burnham

Herb Kransdorf

Steve Regalado

Flo Regalado

William Pomeroy

Hans Lebrecht