Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
(January 15 1929 – April 4 1968)
1.
You had a dream, of pastures of peace,
where children of all hues mingle like rainbows.
2.
They silenced you, yet your dream
resounds louder still,
in pastures not yet of peace,
where children of all hues mingle like rainbows.
3.
You said that you had been to the mountain top,
they tried to strangle your voice as you saw the promised land,
those pastures of peace,
where children of all hues mingle like rainbows.
4.
Today your dream is glimpsed in pastures,
not yet of peace,
for though they tried to silence your voice,
your spirit in our collective hearts does rejoice.
5.
Your spirit, your dream,
mingles in the winds of all those pastures,
over the valleys, in the oceans, across the mountains,
in every flowing stream.
6.
Today, your dream lives in the wind,
seeding the prairies, the steppes, the savannahs, the pampas,
pastures of peace,
where children of all hues mingle like rainbows.
7.
We remember you today,
with a shared pledge to nourish those pastures of peace,
in each of us,
where your dream may thrive,
blossoming into our shared dream,
bounteous, and alive.
8.
Your dream realised shall then seem,
where children of all hues mingle like rainbows,
when we give life to the promise of the radiance of your beautiful dream …
he was a great man
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He was indeed, my friend. We need more like him in this crazy mad unjust and oprressive world today more than ever ✊🏾
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I know right, some people so racist to black people. Why can everyone except everybody for who they are? I hate cops. They are most racist of them all.
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You ask the question that should be asked. And that the answer eludes us is all the more upsetting. The police brutality is a systemic scourge – but there is good and bad amongst all people in this harsh cruel cold word.
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this is a crazy world we live in ✊🏽✊🏾
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I agree 100%. A crazy, unjust, harsh, cold, greed-filled world where the 1% still believe they have a “divine right” over the rest of us.
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I feel your pain. Why people just treat us like humans
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That’s the root of it all – there are some who cling onto their notions of racial, religious, jingoistic nationalism, misogyny, gay-bashing, and all the other hateful ideologies and beliefs there are out there. And sadly because there will always be these walls between people I fear racism and bigotry will never end.
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I understand, how can gay people part of racist 🤔?
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The sad reality is that there are racist people across race and religion and colour and class and sexual-orientation. It is a sad and painful reminder of how much work we all still have to do ✊🏾
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Okay, I understand. I feel you 😪 😢
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Are you now back Afzal? [Rory]
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Good to hear from you, Rory👍🏾. It’s on and off as you know so back for now but may take another break 😼. Take care and thanks for reaching out and your blog is just amazing. 🌿
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Well l am glad to see you back even if for a short while my friend 🙂
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thanks my friend – good to be back 🙂
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Nice one
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Thanks to you, friend, and to all – I’ve been away from our wonderful WordPress community for a while. My apologies for this “form” message to all. I shall be back soon. Warmest wishes and see you all sooner rather than later.
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Such a befitting ode for a wonderful personality as him.
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I am very moved by this Afzal. I have emailed you because I received another of those emails. I am very concerned.
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Reblogged this on A Guy Called Bloke and K9 Doodlepip! and commented:
I will not spoil this with unnecessary words ….
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thank you as ever my dear brother
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Wonderfully expressed Afzal 🙂
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I love that quote – I truly believe that if you can learn to hate you also can learn to love
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