By CARTER WALKER
Times West Virginian
FAIRMONT, W.Va. — The importance of voting was something that Martin Luther King Jr. recognized as a vital part of moving society forward.
“So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote, I do not possess myself,” King said in a 1957 speech titled “Give Us The Ballot.”
“I cannot make up my mind — it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact — I can only submit to the edict of others.”
In true keeping with King’s beliefs, Fairmont residents used his holiday to help register fellow citizens to vote.
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