I Have a Dream

Violence, hatred and the spiritual sickness Doctor Martin Luther King Jr., talked about in our country are alive and well. That is why I think it does us some good as a nation of millions to not just say we love King on his birthday, to not just honor him with the national holiday, or even by doing service on that day.

We do ourselves a great disservice if we do not challenge ourselves, and others, to actually spend time, throughout our lives, to read and listen to his words.

I Have a Dream” speech that is often ignored or forgotten. King used the term “police brutality” twice in this historic address, and here we are many seasons later wondering why police-community relations are so tainted.

This is why King asked and answered his own question: “‘When will you be satisfied?’ We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.”

King encourages us not to drink from the cup of bitterness, to conduct our resistance to injustice on the high moral plane, a lesson some of us need to learn or relearn as we engage in civil disobedience in this new millennium. But those who say movements of today are disrupting their lives also fail to connect that the civil rights movement was completely about making the comfortable uncomfortable until real justice was served.

I asked everyone to take a moment to read or listen to the speech I Have a Dream! It may help the change the hate it or jealousy in your heart and bring you closer to the Lord!