Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., told Newsmax on Monday that Americans would still be "dreaming big, audacious dreams" if Martin Luther King had not been assassinated in 1968.
Joining "The Record with Greta Van Susteren" on Martin Luther King Day, Cherfilus-McCormick added it's her belief that the rise in "extremism" in this country would have been mitigated had MLK lived.
MLK would be 95 years old today.
"I think that our country would have really stayed on course and dreaming a big, audacious dreams, such as ensuring that every American can actually live with freedom, justice, and equality for all," Cherfilus-McCormick told Van Susteren. "And we would have seen more of his dreams being attained, I believe.
"One of the biggest things that Martin Luther King advocated for was economic justice and having the dream of, actually, every American having three meals a day for their body, having culture and education for their minds, and freedom for their spirit," she added.
"And I think we all would have been on the same trajectory, and I don't believe that this rise in extremism that we are seeing would have been rising to this capacity."
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