On This Day

Pray for Unity

  In the United States of America

“We must ever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.  We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.  Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force…I have a dream that every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together…when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all 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.’”

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Taken from His ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech, Delivered on the Steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., August 23, 1963