Comments on: Holiday: Martin Luther King and General Lee Share Holiday http://www.bloggernews.net/113253 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:38:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Veracity Jones http://www.bloggernews.net/113253#comment-200401 Veracity Jones Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:00:24 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/113253#comment-200401 Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. 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 the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little 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! King was no day-dreamer. He put feet to his dreams. His put his back into them. He put his life on the line for them. What has that to do with us? Everything! We have to choose whether we will be Dreamers who Do, or Day-Dreamers who Don’t. We can effect change in the way America does business. We can throw off the shackles of shadow markets. We can free ourselves from the stranglehold of the mighty hedge funds. Together we can…if together we stand! Since I am quoting a preacher today, let me leave you with a quote from the Bible: “A dream cometh through the multitude of business…” Ecclesiastes 5:3 What’s that mean? If you want it, you have to go for it. Change doesn’t come easy or by accident. That’s the Word on the Street. Veracity Jones www.basherbusters.com Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

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 the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little 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!

King was no day-dreamer. He put feet to his dreams. His put his back into them. He put his life on the line for them.

What has that to do with us? Everything! We have to choose whether we will be Dreamers who Do, or Day-Dreamers who Don’t. We can effect change in the way America does business. We can throw off the shackles of shadow markets. We can free ourselves from the stranglehold of the mighty hedge funds. Together we can…if together we stand!

Since I am quoting a preacher today, let me leave you with a quote from the Bible:

“A dream cometh through the multitude of business…” Ecclesiastes 5:3

What’s that mean? If you want it, you have to go for it. Change doesn’t come easy or by accident.

That’s the Word on the Street.

Veracity Jones

http://www.basherbusters.com

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