GOPUSA - Fifty years ago as King delivered his historic, “I Have a Dream” speech blacks had had enough of working all day only to sit on the back of the bus. They were fed up with ushering their young children past “whites only” signs. They were tired of dressing up in their Sunday best only to be publicly dressed down by the haughty eyes of those who set themselves above. Separate but unequal education would no longer do for their children’s bright minds and curious hearts. Our people longed to see their reverent faith in God-given equality and America’s promise that she believed all men to be created brought to life in America. And, their souls could no longer be satisfied until God’s freedom was acknowledged to the full. Fifty years ago King’s dream was that the glory of God be revealed in freedom and brotherhood.
Fifty years later we are civically freer than ever, but many of our people are still crippled by the self inflicted chains of poverty, victimization and dispiritedness. Many voices of today have left us blighted in self pity and languishing in the defeat of blame. Where fifty years ago we looked upward and saw hope, today we have cast our eyes down toward earthly disparities and are surrounded in darkness. There is a fierce urgency of now to dream a new dream. I am dreaming a new dream today.
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