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How Goes the Dream?
By Richard Mathis (about the author) Page 1 of 2 page(s)
For OpEdNews: Richard Mathis - Writer
"I will send you prophets, and wise men, and inspired writers, and you will kill some by crucifixion, and rip open the backs of others with whips . . ."
Jesus
Matthew 23: 28, 34
Historians fear Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s true legacy is being lost. Professor Henry Louis Taylor Jr. said that "All we know is that this guy had a dream. We don't know what that dream was."
Just like Jesus everybody wants to use Dr. King to suit their purpose. Just like Jesus Dr. King was perfectly capable of speaking his own mind without need of theologians, pundits and preachers putting forth the party line.
So just let me put forth some of Dr. King's words on the table. You decide how we are doing. Indeed, ask yourself, how much of this would Dr. King be able to say today without being attacked from both the right and left.
"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
"The greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my own government."
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."
"We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence."
"Let us not wallow in the valley of despair."
"It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream."
"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 transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together . . ."
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