“The world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land.” Martin Luther King Jr. spoke those words on April 3, 1968. Famously, he went on to say that he had been to the mountaintop. He looked over the other side and he saw the promised land.
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Not because we are perfect, but because we aspire to a more perfect union. Not because we have achieved true justice, but because it's a privilege to bear witness to history’s great arc.
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Not because he was proud of leaders who were sitting down, but because he found hope in the masses who were rising up.
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So today, let us celebrate Dr. King’s legacy as he celebrated his own life. Let us celebrate the progress we have made, while still acknowledging how far we have to go. And let us use this day to commit to ensuring that his dream will become our reality, in our time.
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