"I Have a Dream"

As I spent the entire weekend with my kids, I sat back and reflected on the significance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  He was the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement and is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, tactics his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi helped inspire.  Although I was not alive for his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington in 1963, it truly has impacted my life.

"I Have a Dream"

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.'

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.


I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.


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.


I have a dream today.


Thank you Dr. King for all of your dreams, as I too have the same dreams even today.  I truly pray that my children will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.  You see, I had no impact on my children's skin color.  But the content of their character is something that I take very seriously and I work daily to shape and mold them into being amazing human beings who always choose kindness and love 🖤................