Monday, January 21, 2008
Remembering MLK
"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 my four 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. ... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hamp-shire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped 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."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
From the Federalist.com:
Most quoted from Martin King's "I Have a Dream" speech is, "I have a dream that my four 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." Yet today, Jesse Jackson (King's chief aide during those tumultuous civil rights protests) and virtually every other black leader advocate for programs and policies that judge by skin color alone, regardless of character.
Irrespective of one's conclusion about Martin King's proper place in history (given what we know about his personal character lapses, including marital infidelity, his association with known Communists, questions about the originality of his doctoral dissertation, and the violation of his message by those who succeeded him), the two texts cited below - from The Federalist Historic Documents section - are well worth reading -- for each of them proclaim truth.
"I Have a Dream"
"Letter from Birmingham Jail"
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
From the Federalist.com:
Most quoted from Martin King's "I Have a Dream" speech is, "I have a dream that my four 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." Yet today, Jesse Jackson (King's chief aide during those tumultuous civil rights protests) and virtually every other black leader advocate for programs and policies that judge by skin color alone, regardless of character.
Irrespective of one's conclusion about Martin King's proper place in history (given what we know about his personal character lapses, including marital infidelity, his association with known Communists, questions about the originality of his doctoral dissertation, and the violation of his message by those who succeeded him), the two texts cited below - from The Federalist Historic Documents section - are well worth reading -- for each of them proclaim truth.
"I Have a Dream"
"Letter from Birmingham Jail"
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Monday, January 21, 2008 
