I have a dream

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My dearest friends and Siblings

Today I pay honor to a great and noble man, a man

who had an enormous positive change on the lives of

millions of people.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was born 75 years ago on

today's date. He was of course the leader of the

struggle to bring racial equality to the United

States. In the first half of the 20th Century, in

parts of the United States, it was illegal for a

person of African ancestry to eat in the same

restaurant or sit in the same theater or attend the

same school as people of European ancestry. Dr. King

fought to change this.

Dr. King did not choose this role. Other people

had been working on this for several years, and they

called upon Dr. King to lead them. He took the role

seriously, studying in depth the writings and methods

of another famous leader, Mohandas K. Gandhi. Many

other people in the USA in the 1960sk turned to

violence, but Dr. King refused to do this. He was

himself murdered in 1968. Today, he is the only person

honored by an official national holiday in the United

States. It is amazing that a man of peace should hold

an honor that no president or general can claim.

Dr. King once gave a speech in which he spoke of a

dream that he had. I share his dream. I dream that one

day people of all colors and all creeds may sit

together and share bread in friendship. I dream that

one day, Jews and Moslems and Christians and Pagans

and Hindus and Buddhists may all sing together a song

of universal and eternal love. I dream that the last

weapons of the last army may be buried in the sand. I

dream that some day war will exist only in history

books. And I dream that all children in all the lands

of the earth may live in peace and have nothing to

fear.

An impossible dream? Perhaps. But if we can nudge

the world even one centimeter closer to that dream,

our efforts shall not have been in vain. Let us each

begin with ourselves. Let us each bring peace and love

to our own souls. Let us bury our own hatred and

anger, and treat all those we meet with tenderness.

And let each of us always remember to dream.

 

Sister Usha

 

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Sister Usha Devi

Founder, Divinely Female and worshipper of the Sacred Flame that shines inside

every woman

 

 

 

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