It is fitting that Sen. Barack Obama accepts the Democratic Party's presidential nomination tonight. Forty five years after Rev. Martin Luther King gave his monumental "I have a dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial a black man stands where no black man has stood before; at the top of his party's ticket and one step from the office of President of the United States.
From MLK's speech that day:
"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 slave owners 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.”
And
"When we let freedom 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!"
Congratulations Sen. Obama.
I agree with Sen. Obama on very little but I truly hope he is judged fairly not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character (and his standing on the issues).
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You people seem to be very mean by not wanting my family to have health insurance like the members of Congress have. To me health care is more of an inalienable right than is education. People are more able to educate themselves than they are to medicate themselves. If you wont let us have universal health care, then at least give us factor in place of education.
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