Today is the 50th Anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" Speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Defining a moment in American History and capsulizing the essence of the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King called for an end to racism in the USA, inspiring a crowd of a quarter million people of all races at a march on Washington. The movement demanded the natural right of equality for all, which up to that point had been impeded due to a monumental ignorance of our nation.
Today our nation still struggles with ignorance and inequality which has a devastating ill effect on every race, creed, religion and culture; male and female. Martin Luther King Jr. did not just deliver an eloquent speech meant to hang on the shelves of "beautifully stated things", it was meant that men should wake up from a deep mental lethargy and grow into a people of intelligence. To move away from the stagnancy of ignorance and evolve into a people of advancement and development.
Today I honor not only Martin Luther King Jr. and his speech for equality, but even more so his hope that this nation would become one intelligent enough to grow past its ignorance and excel into a functional, fully matured people with the goal of advancement for all mankind.
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