Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today is an important day to recall our history and the people that made our city and country greater. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a visionary of human decency and fairness. His leadership changed our country for the better. Many of his prayers for our country are relevant to the quest for better representation in Decatur. Quoting from his speech "I Have a Dream" delivered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC in 1963:
"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............... When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness............Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring—when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children........will be able to join hands and sing in the words ........Free at last! Free at last! ..."
