In what is now an annual tradition, Apple has dedicated its homepage at apple.com to celebrating Martin Luther King Jr Day.
Each year, Apple chooses a one-sentence quote, which this year is:
It is again taken from King’s famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail in which he addressed criticism from other Christians who considered he was an outsider interfering in matters which didn’t affect him – and breaking the law to do so.
He went on to observe that legality or illegality is not necessarily the same as right or wrong.
Apple CEO Tim Cook also tweeted a sentence from King’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.
“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.” Let us all be so audacious, and work to make MLK’s dream a reality for us all.
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) January 20, 2020
In that speech, King said that we must favor hope and faith over despair.
You can watch the full speech below.
Martin Luther King Jr Day is a federal holiday in the U.S. to mark the birthday of the civil rights leader. The holiday was signed into law in 1983 and first observed in 1986, but opposition in some states meant that it wasn’t until the year 2000 that it was officially observed across the entire country.
