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Message:: [QUOTE="Kasia, post: 1370448, member: 31533"]I personally won't support this. As much as MLK has been seen as some sort of force behind civil rights, and the civil rights movement has led to more equality, I think that we need to get away not only from Dead Presidents on coins (our American version, so to speak, of political royalty) and go back to American Ideals. So my question is why replace one of the dead presidents with MLK or any other person we have to 'honor'. The next thing you know, we'll be trading off the obverse portraits of quarters with different people, like a flavor of the month thing. Start off with MLK, then go to Pres. Johnson, then Rosa Parks, Medgar Evans, the Birmingham four or whatever number there was, and spice it up with a Kresge's counter and white's only fountain or even Cesar Chavez (now maybe I could get behind that. He did a lot for a lot of people. But then I think, there's lots of people who could be equally honored). Geez....this is coinage for a country that is supposedly wanting not to mix up our Presidents as royalty, yet we are now constantly having mostly presidents on the coins, and the only difference is they are not alive. My point is let's back a proposition where it can't just be flavor of the month, honoring the person of the moment (historically speaking) and go to a more idealistic obverse with a reverse that is classic, like the wreath with the amount on it.[/QUOTE]