For me, as I revisit this King and remember his last years of unrelenting struggle against what he called “the triple evils” of racism, materialism, and militarism, I see him on the nettlesome, uncharted path toward a more perfect union, a path that still challenges us all. I hear him preaching at his Ebenezer Church in Atlanta: “I choose to identify with the underprivileged. I choose to identify with the poor. I choose to give my life for the hungry…. This is the way I’m going. If it means suffering a little bit, I’m going that way. If it means sacrificing, I’m going that way. If it means
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