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"Men
for years now have been talking about war and peace. But now,
no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice
between violence and non-violence in this world, it’s non-violence
or non-existence."
On December 2, 1999, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) approved the site location for the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. No federal funds will be used to construct the memorial. Per congressional mandate, the Martin Luther King Memorial Project Foundation has until November 12, 2003 to raise the money for the memorial and break ground. The memorial began as a project of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., of which Dr. King was a member. Legislation introduced in 1996 and became law in 1998 that provided for the construction of the memorial. The architectural firm ROMA Design Group of San Francisco created the winning design, chosen from more than 900 submissions. The King Memorial site is a four-acre plot across the tidal basin from the Jefferson Memorial and north of the memorial to President Roosevelt. The approved site creates a visual "line of leadership" from the Lincoln Memorial, where King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, to the Jefferson Memorial. The message of Martin Luther King’s Civil Rights Movement was one of peace and nonviolence. His vision was to peacefully create a nation that would embrace the diversity of its people. Now is the time to recognize and acknowledge the timelessness of Dr. King’s message. The beauty of our world lies in the quilt of differences that individual cultures and histories create. Through the generosity of individuals like yourself, we can make the dream a reality.
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