Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Following is an excerpt of a
speech read in many history classes, seen in documentaries, and which
has moved me in the past and present.

Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
on August 28, 1963.

"... 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 slaveowners will be able to sit down together
at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the
state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of
injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom
and justice. 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. I have a dream today.
...
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!"
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Entire speech, click here.