Stars in the Night.(Main)

Martin Luther King did not die in vain.

Once, on a historic day in Washington, this eloquent man who preached justice and brotherly love told his huge audience:

"I have a dream ... that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold this truth to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' "

That dream, voiced in 1963 to an awesome throng of 200,000 in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial, today seems further from reality than ever.

Indeed, the cowardly, senseless murder of Dr. King by a bigot's bullet - and the widespread new violence it …