At 90, Rita Prahinski vividly recalls when Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., visited her home state of Louisiana. King, who fought for racial and economic equality through peaceful resistance, was a noble and godly man in the eyes of Prahinski and her friends. He inspired in them to do what is right and just when it comes to following the Greatest Commandment of loving your neighbor as yourself.

Bishop Fernand J. Cheri, a fifth-generation black Catholic, was a student when the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in April 1968, but he still cites the civil rights icon and Baptist minister as an example to him of Christian discipleship.