For Immediate Release
Jan. 13, 2005
Contact: Jason McCarty
Oklahoma Democratic Party
405.427.3366

ODP Honors Martin Luther King Day

Oklahoma Democratic Party (ODP) State Chair Lisa Pryor said today that Oklahomans should continue to embrace the values that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. represented - social and economic justice and equality. Pryor said the ODP is committed to King's ideals and is working to bring those moral values into the state political discourse.

"As we celebrate the birthday of Dr. King, we should remain steadfast in advancing the principles for which he sacrificed his life," Pryor said. "Dr. King stood for the very things we at the ODP are fighting for every day. We believe in a community where all people are equal, we believe in a government that serves people with compassion and responsibility. We believe that no child in Oklahoma should ever go to bed hungry and we believe all Oklahomans are entitled to an opportunity to succeed in life."

Members and staff of the Oklahoma Democratic Party will participate in the Oklahoma City Martin Luther King Jr. parade, scheduled at 2:00 p.m. in downtown Oklahoma City. The parade starts at N.W. Seventh and will move south along North Robinson. In Tulsa, Democrats can participate in the commemorative parade which begins at 10:00 a.m. and forms at Pine Street and Cincinnati Avenue then proceeds east to Greenwood Avenue and south through the Greenwood Business District.

"Equality, social justice, civil rights, and the protection of the less fortunate are just a few of the ideals Dr. King engrained into our collective conscience. Unfortunately, the Bush Administration has consistently advanced public policies that undermine and threaten the achievement of these very principles," Pryor said.