As our colleagues and friends in the United States mark January 17, 2011, as Martin Luther King Jr Day, Canadians can also take time to remember his call to action for equality and justice. “We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation,” said Dr King in his famous speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington in 1963. His call for hope, for justice, for equality and for freedom continues to ring loud decades later and inspires each successive generation of people seeking equality and justice.