“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 [and women] are created equal.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lincoln Memorial
Washington, D.C.
August 28, 1963
March on Washington:
* “It’s difficult for someone these days to understand what is was like, to suddenly have a ray of light in the dark.”
* “The crowd was enormous. Kind of like the feeling you get when a thunderstorm is coming…”
* “We are here because a woman by the name of Rosa Parks stood up in the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, walked down to the front, and…”
“Walk down to the front” in life and you just might be surprised who goes with you… (Blaine)
The following is King’s statement about our interdependence, which directly speaks to cooperative design.
A Network of Mutuality
“All I’m saying is simply this: that all mankind is tied together; all life is interrelated, and we are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of identity. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what I ought to be until I am what I ought to be – this is the interrelated structure of reality.”
In case some of your readers are wondering what that other “most interesting” civil rights battle, which occurred on January 18th, was all about …
http://jimblaineoncreditunions.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-battle-of-hayes-pond.html
…Locklear’s personal recounting of that night (“I throwed the gun on him…”) is a North Carolina classic.