"No Shots Fired" -- what did Bernice A. King mean (Huffington Post signed welcome & invitation) - Jan. 20, 2014

from the youngest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. King -- Bernice -- exec. director of the KING CENTER, Atlanta, GA: the 2014 King Holiday Observance with the theme, Remember! Celebrate! Act! King's Legacy of Peace for Our World. This theme also pays homage to the fact that, this year, we will commemorate the 50th anniversary of both my father receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, as well as the enactment of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. With the theme of peace in mind, we launched our five-year "Choose Nonviolence" campaign. As part of the campaign, our goal is to expose, encourage, educate, engage and empower one million current, emerging and next-generation leaders to embrace Dr. King's leadership philosophy. This will be done through social media, dialogues, summits, marketing campaigns and a global leadership initiative. On the national holiday today, The King Center is calling for a moratorium on violence. Specifically, we are asking that there be no shots fired -- no shooting off at the mouth with our tongue, no shooting off physically with our fists and no shooting off of any type of gun! Just for one day -- on the King Holiday -- in recognition of my father, and as TIME magazine has said, one of our nation's Founding Fathers, let us honor the memory of one of the world's most highly regarded nonviolent proponents of peace on his holiday, with no shots fired. Instead, we ask that people engage in something positive and uplifting in service to humanity. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bernice-a-king/kings-legacy-of-peace-for-our-world_b_4629523.html