4.17.2007
doubleyou tee eff, mate?
ok, so, not a fan of the new gmail blogger whatever thing this sites got goin on.
anyway, now is not a time to wallowing in frustration or anything like that..
i was just reading martin luther king jr's i have a dream speech.
(i figured that if i wasnt reading my homework biography about herman melville, i may as well read something thats also productive)
"In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "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. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream."
and i was thinking, while reading this, not only how powful and moving jr's words are, but how much insight a reader or listener gains from listening to them. i think it'd be really cool to listen to this and sutdy this a little bit at our mississippi meetings this year. that would be so cool. because although it is way before our time, we're all human and can make observations on such a contraversial movement in our countrys history.
i'd really like that. to talk about it with the mississippi group.
gaahhh there is SO much more i coudl say but i only want to write it to get it off my chest, i dont want other people to read it hahah, so, without further adeu, i'm going to go write in my other thing on greatestjournal.
my secret one. :)
i hope youre having as wonderful an april vacation as i've been having.. and its only day TWO!! :) yesssssssssss
anyway, now is not a time to wallowing in frustration or anything like that..
i was just reading martin luther king jr's i have a dream speech.
(i figured that if i wasnt reading my homework biography about herman melville, i may as well read something thats also productive)
"In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "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. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream."
and i was thinking, while reading this, not only how powful and moving jr's words are, but how much insight a reader or listener gains from listening to them. i think it'd be really cool to listen to this and sutdy this a little bit at our mississippi meetings this year. that would be so cool. because although it is way before our time, we're all human and can make observations on such a contraversial movement in our countrys history.
i'd really like that. to talk about it with the mississippi group.
gaahhh there is SO much more i coudl say but i only want to write it to get it off my chest, i dont want other people to read it hahah, so, without further adeu, i'm going to go write in my other thing on greatestjournal.
my secret one. :)
i hope youre having as wonderful an april vacation as i've been having.. and its only day TWO!! :) yesssssssssss
// posted by RACH @ 12:29 PM 
