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If you’re going to condemn King for plagiarism (and let’s face it, we could argue a LOT of people plagiarized just from taking stuff here and there, since there’s rarely a truly original thought out there), I strongly suggest, by virtue of consistency, you do the same with Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence. Richard Henry Lee even accused Jefferson of plagiarizing John Locke’s Second Treatise with the Declaration, and Jefferson never denied it, and if anything he even implied that’s what made it a strong document. Here: https://mises.org/library/real-jefferson

“In fact, Richard Henry Lee accused Jefferson of plagiarism. According to the man who signed the first motion for independence in June 1776, the Declaration was copied from John Locke’s Second Treatise. The Virginian had no reason to dispute that allegation. In fact, Jefferson considered this to be the document’s real strength:

The object of the Declaration of Independence … was … not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of, not merely to say things which had never been said before; but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject … Neither aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American mind ... All its authority rests then on the harmonizing sentiments of the day, whether expressed in conversation, in letters, printed essays, or in the elementary books of public right, as Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, etc.”

Either way, at least Martin Luther King didn’t forge, in an extremely blasphemous manner in fact, an entire bible called the “MLK bible” that gutted any and all supernatural aspects from it and made Jesus little different from a wise philosopher rather than the Son of God, while Jefferson had in fact done that.