MAKE A CHANGE, VOLUNTEER TODAY!

I have a dream today; in the larger picture IT IS WORLD PEACE…

 

For now, for RIGHT NOW, I will settle for all Americans, from all states and territories, and all across the world.  To put down the instruments of destructions, and to pick up the tools to allow one another to live in the liberty and freedom that has been fought for far too long!  Literally, what does this mean?  This means that we all need to work together to offer every one a safe place to sleep, food to eat, and universal healthcare!  I am NOT talking about socialism!  I am talking about TEAMWORKISM! Not a hand out, or even a hand up!  Each and every one of us, want to work to make our situation better, safer, and more comfortable.  We need to look inside ourselves however and stop the raping of mother earths resources!  Because even if they were unlimited, we are using our amount disproportionate to the rest the world.  We are no better of a human being than any one else living in another country.  When we join hands, LITERALLY working hand-in-hand to create things like Health Care for all, Food, and Shelter for all.  We will no longer be in antagonism with one another in the manor we live today!

 

I have a dream, that volunteerism will show the great jewels that it holds!  That people will see that when you work to better yourself, you body feels better.  BUT, when you work to better others situations, you have bettered everyone’s situation!  The saying IS TRUE, “Our country is only as good as the least among us!”  When you help another, your mind, and SOUL, your being is uplifted and you change your world that very day forever.  As a nation WE will not be told, “You can not!”  We will not be told, “You never will!”  We will not be told, “Things are too tough, or impossible!”  WE JUST DO!

 

YES WE CAN!  YES WE WILL, and YES WE ARE!  Today, I have a dream.  That tomorrow will be a better place.  All Americans will have health care!  All Americans will have a home, a job, food, water.  This dream will be realized not because of any small thing I might have to offer.  It will be realized with what things we all have to offer, and we will find out that in our time of “need,” our time of, “strife.”  We ALL WILL rise to the call to make this a better place.  This is no longer the time to talk about different generations, different cultures or races, different religions or believes, or even different economic backgrounds.  We all have a need!  We all have our will, and together we will make this happened. 

 

It all starts with YOU!

 

You in a small place, with little resource passing along, what you can to the next, and the next and the next.  Volunteering is contagious, plant a tree, conserve, save, reuse, direct, move a mountain!  Let each and everyone of us start the fire to clean up our streets in every way.  Make way for those in need, become a role model for those who do not believe yet!  As this country starts to become organized, we can offer our help to our neighbors.  Free Africa from the oppression in every way, Free the Middle East from the belief that weapons and not words are the way to change the world, Free the countries of China and India from the restrictions of over population.

 

These changes only SEEM large!  Have you ever heard of beginners luck?  It is my belief that this exist because the person is not aware of limitations.  We do not know, what we do not know.  Now we have the opportunity to embrace the change!

 

I voted for Barack Obama, you may or may not have.  You may not have voted at all.  This is a time were the country has seen a dream realized!  Use that momentum, carry that HOPE, make what some say is the impossible, POSSIBLE!

 

You may or may not be aware that there is a big rousing happening in the scientific community.  Particular around the area of physics and/or quantum mechanics, this is the science that involves what we are made of.  Just as scientists proclaimed that the earth was round and not flat thousands of years ago, science is now showing the world that we are all interconnected, AND we all influence the physical world with our mind.

 

That maybe one thought you might have to get used to.  Either way, believe or not, the world is progressing with or with out you.  Do you want to be a part of the change or not?

 

CREATE THE CHANGE TODAY!

 

I HAVE A DREAM TODAY, AND I AM MAKING IT COME TRUE!!!

-Sixcreedo

 

Volunteer

 

http://www.volunteertoday.com/

www.peacecorps.gov/

www.americorps.org/

www.redcross.org/

www.liveunited.org/

www.habitat.org/

 

Become the change!

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy!

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. 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." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever 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.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

We cannot turn back.

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

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!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day 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."

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that:

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, 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, 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!

 

 -Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I Have a Dream"

 

delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C