Martin Luther King, Jr.
Although this is not the most famous excerpt from his "I have a Dream" speech...it is perhaps my most favorite part...
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!
for it speaks to all who are persecuted as second class citizens...
But did you also know that today is Benjamin Franklin's' birthday...perhaps it is an "odd" pairing but then again...
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Each, in their own way, contributed to making America...sometimes I feel we would do well to have one or both of them with us today.
1 comment:
Beautifully put. Never knew about today being old Ben's birthday. It is an odd but interesting pairing.
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