On January 17, 1991, I was invited to discuss the impact of Dr. King in honor of his birthday. I give speeches all the time, but I remember the irony of celebrating his nonviolent philosophy as America was watching the Gulf War unfold in the Middle East. I saw an opportunity to help people understand. Professor Randall Kennedy of the Howard Law School wrote the definitive article regarding the role of lawyers in Martin Luther King’s early days in the Yale Law Journal in 1986.