It was step-by-step, brick-by-brick, trying to build a holiday that would do justice to everything Dr. King represented. It would not sensationalize, but it would make the holiday part of the American conscience, a day of meaning and character. |
It's not a black holiday. It's a holiday for the people of America and the world. It was more appropriate in that Rose Garden setting. |
We asked them to help us police the holiday. If people started to turn it into a day for bargain sales, we asked them to politely urge, in the name of Dr. King, not to make it a commercial day. |