Column: America is never great when its policies are exclusionary

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s leadership is needed now more than ever. Not because America has failed to make progress, but because it risks forgetting why that progress was possible in the first place. King’s legacy is often reduced to soaring rhetoric about dreams and harmony. Far less attention is paid to his deeper challenge: that the United States could not credibly lead the world while denying dignity, equality and opportunity at home. That moral insight remains urgently relevant in today’s debates over immigration, race and national identity.

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