Today marks the 47th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" that he delivered on the Mall of Washington, D.C. His powerful words began a movement which has lead to opening the doors for blacks, Hispanics, women and others who were discriminated due to color, religion, etc.
"I have 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."
Martin Luther Luther King concluded his famous "I have a dream" speech with the following words:
"Let freedom ring from every hill and molehil of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
"When we let 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."
With government taking control business, our health, the future of our children and their children, I would ask today, "How free are we today?" What will be next...religion, speech, personal liberty, the right to bear arms?"
My friends, we are living in a very trying period of American history and we need more men and women to speak out against governmental intrusion. We need to take back the citadels of power from the local and state levels to Washington, D.C. We must continue to the battle cry, "Let freedom ring" from the North, South, East and West, "Let freedom ring" from "shore to shining shore."
May the song we sing "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside,let freedom ring."
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