Monday, January 18, 2016 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Dream It. Believe It. Make It Happen.

Monday, January 18, 2016 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  – Dream It. Believe It. Make It Happen.

Today in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., please think about the following two excerpts from his I Have a Dream Speech, delivered on August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D. C. Think about the words he said then and review them in light of the world today.

 I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

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And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that:

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

 And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

                Free at last! Free at last!

                Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

Now go out there and make the world a better place.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

Lincoln Memorial Washington D.C. June 2013 Copyright Delia R. Duffey