After having seen the Civil Rights Movement exhibit, standing where Martin Luther King Jr. stood when he told a quarter of a million Americans that he had a dream, after reading Lincoln’s two most moving addresses, it really sunk in that our nation’s people have faced so much opposition in the very short time that we have been a country. This opposition has almost entirely been from within. I am not about to preach that everyone should just get along. We shouldn’t. But I want all my brothers and sisters and comrades to feel what I felt when I stood and looked out on our nation’s capitol. There will not come a day when the world is free of religious restrictions on our lifestyles. There will not come a day when we walk the streets at night and are completely safe. But there will be a day when we rise together and suffocate the intolerance and shame that we face presently. We will lead the next generations through museum exhibits about our revolution. We will have memorials and plaques on the sidewalk to mark where the direction of a nation pivoted on our words.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:27:52 +0000
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