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“When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming together it is the beginning of reality.”—Helder Camara
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28 August 1963
A Call for Justice and a Call for the US to Act Righteously
57 years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C., racial equality in the US or for that matter around the world, remains an elusive goal.
Much remains to be done, and thus, we must carry on imagining the dream until the dream comes true.
I offer this in honour of Black History Month
'I have a Dream’: 'it's a flame that still burns'
The civil-rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. waves to supporters on Aug. 28, 1963,
on the Mall in Washington, D.C. AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Imagining the Dream: "So even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream."…
"The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
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- Pity Mr. Marvell who believed in crackpots' remedies
- What Is Life? What a Moving Story- Sir Paul Nurse
- A timeless story: ‘The poet and the world’
- Reflecting on Life: My Childhood in Iran where the love of poetry was instilled in me
- Poetry is the Education that Nourishes the Heart and Nurtures the Soul