DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’S DREAM AND CHALLENGE TO ACTION

"In the end we’ll remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." --Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ahmadiyya Times | News Staff | Excerpts
Source "I have a Dream": Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers project at Stanford University
Source  "Challange to Action": Western Michigan University Library

“I Have a Dream” [MLK, Jr. Papers project,Stanford University, www.stanford.edu/group/king]
 
The "I have a Dream" speach was delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.on August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Washington, D.C., Lincoln Memorial. It was part of the event during the march on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. 

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.

Challenge to Action [Western Michigan University]

Dr. King's speach of 1963, made at Westeren Michigan University was discovered and the following excerpts are selected by our staff.

"The world in which we live is geographically one. Now we are challenged to make it one in terms of brotherhood."

"Now through our ethical and moral commitment, we must make of it a brotherhood. We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools. This is the great challenge of the hour. This is true of individuals. It is true of nations. No individual can live alone. No nation can live alone."

"I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality."

"[W]e're challenged after working in the realm of ideas, to move out into the arena of social action and to work passionately and unrelentingly to make racial justice a reality."

"[W]e must never substitute a doctrine of Black supremacy for white supremacy. For the doctrine of Black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy. God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow men but God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race, the creation of a society where all men will live together as brothers."

-- Ahmadiyya Times Staff selection