He stood on the steps.
He called, "I have a dream."
Hope and Resistance was born.
Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin
Luther King Junior changed the lives of countless millions. The future and hope
for mankind was expanded on that day.
With gratitude for one who stood bravely in the crosshairs for the
people of his time and for generations to come.
I was 13 years old living in a world lacking the richness of
cultural diversity when Dr. King spoke the words, "I have a
dream." However, I had been blessed
deeply in the man I was given as father. a man of good heart and good
intention. My Daddy had been raised on a
farm in the South. Born in 1898 he had
seen and experienced much. Through the
years, Daddy had shared with me snippets of life in The South and the prejudice crossing into all aspects of life there. One
of my Father's dearest gifts to me was his sense of inclusive love and justice
for ALL PEOPLE - indeed for ALL LIFE. My
father was one of the few men truly deserving to be called a gentle-man. With gratitude to my father who first opened
my heart, so I was able to deeply hear the words of Dr. King.
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