"1963 is not an end, but a beginning."
~Martin Luther King Jr.
In memory of Martin Luther King Jr. I would like to share his words of inspiration for the passion that he had for civil rights. My girls love reading
this book in his memory, and each year as they get older they learn to really appreciate him, and all that he accomplished. So today I leave you with a reminder of this great man's words of courage, and hope. His words have gone down in history, and if you get a moment to listen to
his speech, and I mean
really listen up until the very end...it'll give you such a spiritual high to make you feel like you can accomplish anything. It makes me want to shout out from the rooftops, and have more courage to do more good in this world. If he would have ever ran for president, I know many would have voted for him. His dream of ending racial segregation will never be forgotten, and I will always be grateful to him.
It doesn't even matter what color I am, or in which generation I was born in.
"In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst of freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force."
I have a dream today!
"I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification"--one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers."
I have a dream today!
"With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, knowing that we will be free one day."
Let freedom ring!
"And when this happens, 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!"
