I have a dream...

Martin Luther King Day is just around the corner. Although holidays like this one don’t get the same kind of recognition worldwide that Christmas or Valentine’s Day does, it’s still a holiday that I really appreciate. I can’t help but admire his conviction and determination to see a better world for all people and all races.

I remember doing a study on him in elementary school. The thing I remember most is a “play” that we read in our classroom. Although it wasn’t some big production, each child was assigned a line to read and we read it in order just among our classmates, it stuck with me for some reason. I’m pretty sure that I still have my copy stuck away somewhere because even at the elementary age it touched something in me. Maybe that’s because it put a face to a shameful time in history and made me realize that although our world isn’t perfect now, we have come a long way – and still have a long way to go.

Even if our own lives have never been personally touched by racisim, and of that we should be ever grateful of, I think it can only help if we take time to remember how things were, to remember the people that paved the way for the things we enjoy today.

Here is, to me, one of the most memorable parts of Martin Luther King’s famous “I have a dream” speech. The rest can be found online at the Douglass Archives. Let us never forget – and even if we don’t celebrate this holiday, hopefully we can take the spirit of it with us.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. 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. I have a dream today.

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