Analyze Quote “We are not makers of history

You are to interpret and analyze the following quote by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1954)
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
What does this quotation mean to you after studying about America and the World for the past 15 weeks.
For this essay, you will write a 2-3 page, double-spaced essay, incorporating this quotation and some of your own personal takeaways from this course.
some U.S. history topics you can talk about are the civil war, the 1960s, and Christopher Columbus.
you do not have to use any sources