Dreams Never Die

Happy Martin Luther King Day!

In the United States of America we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr for his great work in expanding civil liberties for minorities, particularly black people but his works were not limited to his own people.

Many of us have heard at least part of his “I Have A Dream” speech. And we can say, definitively, the dream has not come.

Nor is it dead.

There is a thought, that an idea once brought into the world it never leaves it, no matter how hard you try or how it is opposed. It cannot die.

What a lovely idea, no, that the idea of equality, love, of judging based on action and deed and not color or some superfluous trait like sex. And certainly Dr. King isn’t the first person to feel these things and champion it but he brought them to vast numbers of people on his shoulders was it carried into mass consciousness and it bears now.

So thank you Dr. King and thank you to all those who have suffered and died and toiled to bring the dream to life. To all those who brought us closer to make that dream a reality. I have benefitted greatly for such work and sacrifice, as have we all. Opportunities open to anyone enhances everyone. What drugs, what technology, what break throughs in human understanding have we benefited from thank to those doors being open. Can you even calculate the titanic benefit our societies have gained as a result?

So, again, thank you Dr. King. And thank YOU my dear readers for judging me on the quality of my work and not some immutable characteristic like the color of my skin.

Happy Martin Luther King Day