This morning I started out the same way I begin every Martin Luther King Jr. Day... by listening to his beautiful I Have a Dream speech in its entirety.

Man, did Dr. King know how to inspire with his words. And his actions.

This year I'm seeing more and more people posting great stuff beyond his most famous speech, which is very cool...

• CNN promoted a previously unheard recording where Dr. King is discussing John F. Kennedy... but the true gold of that piece is the link at the bottom which goes to another of their articles: The greatest MLK speeches you never heard.
• Slate posted a great piece about what Dr. King did after his successful coordination of the Montgomery bus boycott, and it's amazing: In Suggestions for Victorious Bus Boycotters, MLK's Powerful Turn Toward Nonviolence.
• Lt. Uhura from Star Trek, Nichelle Nichols, talks to NPR about how Martin Luther King Jr. convinced her to stay on the show when she was thinking about quitting.
• Daily Kos has an article that lays it all out brilliantly: Most of you have no idea what Martin Luther King actually did.
• Even Forbes got in on the MLK action in a surprisingly relevant way: 5 Entrepreneurship Lessons from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Worth your time, all.

And if all that's not enough MLK for you, here's a great time-lapse film of an artist creating a sketch honoring him on this day set aside to remember...

   
And if celebrating the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. has put you in too good of a mood today, no worries. You can always count on Sarah Palin to come along a destroy everything.

I'd usually say something horribly offensive here in response the the utterly insane levels of stupidity that seems to flow endlessly from Sarah Palin's disgusting mouth... but today... today... I'm inspired to be better than that.