Remember

 

It's hard to believe we stood so divided on the color of our skin. And it's hard to believe that we stand divided today amongst other things that are very similar to this--sexual orientation, political affiliation... 

After going through this and the horror that is still felt from this movement, you would think that division would have no place in our society. You would think that we learned that equality truly means equality.

Today I think of the lives lost and the humiliation, imprisonment, punishment, and abuse that was never deserved. I'm remembering this movement and every single person that spoke and stood for peace and equality, and those that rally for the very same things today. My prayer is that one day we can truly allow everyone to have that.

I cannot imagine how powerful it must have been to have stood on the National Mall for MLK's speech. Here are the last few moments of the famous "I Have a Dream":

"And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"


I plan to one day record my Gram talking about this. Her stories are incredible.

love you e,
love, t.