Jon Meacham: We Live in a Better Country Because MLK Jr. Gave His Life for the Rest of Us

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MEACHAM: “Taylor Branch, the great biographer of King, is the first person I ever saw who referred to King rightly, I believe, as a second Founding Father, as a modern Founding Father of a country. And he grounded -- King grounded his claims for the country not on something radical and un-American, but on something radical and very American, which was to actually realize the meaning of the words that folks who look like you and me, decided to make -- put at the center of the American experiment, that all were created equal. And the claim was, live up to what you say. And that's King's continuing legacy."
SCARBOROUGH: "Yeah."
MEACHAM: "He was a much more radical figure toward the end of his life. But we live in a better country, because that man gave his life for the rest of us."