United States ‘Embodying love’

Perry World House Graduate Associate Ayo Aladesanmi spoke at Penn's Interfaith Commemoration of the Life of Martin Luther King Jr earlier this month.

"What are you willing to die for?” graduate student Ayo Aladesanmi asked the assembled audience at the Interfaith Commemoration of the Life of Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 19. “Let that answer be love,” he said. “For me, the legacy of Martin Luther King is found in his profound awareness of our impermanence on this earth. We ought to only spend our time loving: embodying love by caring for each other at our lowest points, implementing love by seeking justice and reckoning with our collective past, and spreading love by ending the human suffering and poverty and destitution that plague our world.”

Aladesanmi, who is earning a dual degree in the Master of Public Administration program at the Fels Institute for Government and the Master in Law program at Penn Carey Law School, was one of four student speakers at the Interfaith Commemoration.

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