As we honor the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington today, let's remember that important day.
I Have a Dream....
....This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood....
....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....
....With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood....
....When we allow freedom to ring - when we let it ring from every city and every hamlet, from every state and every city - we will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last, Great God a-mighty, we are free at last."
- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (excerpts from the "I Have a Dream..." speech, March on Washington, April 28, 1963)
Read Dr. King's entire amazing speech here!
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| Leaders of the March on Washington with Sen. Everett Dirksen, R-Ill (center), including Martin Luther King, Jr., and John Lewis (right) during visit to the Capitol, August 28, 1963 |
50 Years On....
You have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
- Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga (PBS Newshour, April 27, 2013)
Watch Congressman Lewis's entire interview here!
Okay, now, go hug somebody.
Copyright credits: First two photos © AP; "I Have a Dream..." speech excerpts © family of Martin Luther King , Jr.; Video © PBS Newshour; Monument photo © U.S. Information Agency, Press and Publications Service
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