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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

“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!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification” — one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”

One of the most powerful speeches in world history: the “I Have a Dream” speech. Just saying that brings a chill down my spine. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s message to the world was not just to fight racism and segregation.

His goal was to make people believe that each individual has power, and anything can be achieved peacefully. Words, feelings, and actions to live by….

Every day brings on challenges. Challenges unique to each individual… However if everyone reflected on the words he spoke, and then acted on at least a few…… How much different would things be….

Dr. King set his goals in a time when people were being hung for sharing his opinion. Still, he was not afraid. He got many death threats while leading the civil rights movement, but this did not stop him, because he knew that giving into fear was the biggest threat to the civil rights movement.

Today is time to reflect on these things, to look at all this speech accomplished. Maybe not then at that moment in time, but decades later. What it means to you, and what you hope it will mean to others in the future.

Dr. King said, “Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”