Best use of twenty minutes
I Have a Dream (with transcript)
It is joyous to me to see religion as a force for good. And I want to say something cliched, like 'how far we have come, and how far we have yet to go.' So, I suppose, I just did. But, really, I just want to quote this section.
"But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force."
It is joyous to me to see religion as a force for good. And I want to say something cliched, like 'how far we have come, and how far we have yet to go.' So, I suppose, I just did. But, really, I just want to quote this section.
"But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force."