On Jan. 21, we will pause to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day. On that day, as “identity politics” tear at the fabric of America, let us recall the words of M.L. King Jr. during a 1965 commencement address at Oberlin College: “… learn to live together as brothers and sisters … Or, we will perish together as fools.”

Dr. King’s words speak to our time when so many Americans feel politically homeless. We far too seldom hear a call for reasonableness and compromise in a political arena consumed…