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To: HawaiianGecko

"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 slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four 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."
--MLK - Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963.

7 posted on 03/15/2006 7:44:23 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)

They like having MLK as an icon, but they didn't like his ideas very much. I think he appealed to Whites even more than he appealed to Blacks, and that was what caused segregation to come to an end.

58 posted on 03/15/2006 8:11:11 AM PST by Flavius Josephus (War today is always cheaper than war tomorrow.)

That is SOOOO 1960s.../sarcasm

80 posted on 03/15/2006 9:01:02 AM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)

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