On August 28, 1963: ‘I have a dream’ speech was delivered by American civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr.,
Today, MLK’s Holiday serves multiple purposes: It honors the total legacy of Dr King, focuses on the issue of civil rights, highlights the use of nonviolence to promote change, call people into public services and humanity to embrace and live with one another without preconditions.
Progressive US civil rights leader and icon Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis on the 4th of April 1968. He was shot on a hotel balcony and died soon after in a nearby hospital.
Ever since more
and more people die because of injustices pointed by King, “Injustice anywhere
is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of
mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly,
affects all indirectly.”
A march that was
one of the most celebrated events of civil rights movement, started with the
indomitable man of peace, Martin Luther King, Jr., fifty-eight years ago, in
Selma, where protesters trying to cross the Edmund Pettus bridge, were beaten
by police officers, shocking the nation and leading to the passage of the
denied landmark voting rights Act of 1965.
Similarly, in 2015,
the nation’s first African American president, Barack Obama, led thousands in a
commemorative march of a bipartisan, biracial testimonial to the pioneers whose
courage helped pave the way for his election to the highest office on the land
in 2008.
Again,
commemorating the event, as America’s first and so far only black president,
Barack Obama as a leading voter for the next leader of the country took a lead
of the last generation of living civil rights leaders and some of the 2020
democratic presidential candidates who have gathered in rows to march
arm-in-arm in South Carolina to celebrate the special day.
Today, because
of all those who made the difference before us and those who are making the
change for a better society now, we’re able to live side by side even though
the road to change is still far away from reaching “the mountain top”.
You know what,
man created the system, law, rules…man can change anything. Therefore, it’s time
to change the guiding lights that was built long time ago only to serve its
creator.
We must declare
new pledges, to fight radicalism, extinguish hate from our society and stay
together with our commonality as brothers and sisters.
We must reinstate
our vows again and again to resonate with that of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s
words of wisdoms, “Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. We must
learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
He continued to
educate, “How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever. How long? Not
long, you shall reap what you sow… How long? Not long, because the arc of the
moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
“If you want to be important – that’s wonderful. If
you want to be great – that’s wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest
among you shall be your servant. That's your new definition of greatness - it
means that everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You don’t have
to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know the second
law of thermodynamics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul
generated by love...”
Every meeting he
attended was filled with words of wisdom. “I want to suggest some of the things
that should begin your life’s blueprint. Number one in your
life's blueprint should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your worth and
your own somebodyness. Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.
Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel
that your life has ultimate significance. Secondly, in your life's blueprint
you must have as the basic principle the determination to achieve excellence in
your various fields of endeavor. You're going to be deciding as the days, as
the years unfold what you will do in life — what your life's work will be. Set
out to do it well.”
He continued to
ask effortlessly, “The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what
kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love?”
It's now time for
us to draw a line under the differences of our past and work together to build
consensus around a proposal for change without hostility.
This is long
overdue. This is a decision that we as society must make for ourselves. Let’s
work together as a strong global society. Australia must accept vote choices
back to the owners of the land, to create an independent and self-reliant new
sovereign nation including changing all the inherited suburban and states’
names with befitting Australian land names. Australians are ready and tired of
talking year after year during election times and ones politicians get elected
to the commonwealth subservient office, doing nothing to change it. It’s time
to vote for indigenous equality!
The world
communities like America must also outlaw hostility and hate in order to live
together with people of different color.
King told us
that, “The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has
his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open.” It’s up to us which one we
want to be.
No matter what
has happened in the past, we can’t obliterate history. What we can do,
nevertheless, is forgive and move on knowing that the benefits are much greater
than playing politics in a continuous vicious cycle to fix the past hefty
maltreatments and all delinquencies with so much unsubstantiated mendacities
for vengeance. All I’m asking my fellow human beings while I’m buzzing is to
live together peacefully because we all are here for a short time.
We can’t go on
doing the same thing forever and expect different results. Needless to say,
racism existed for so long and nobody was prepared to do something about it for
fear of coercions and controls by the very people performing the act.
Thank you, King, for every step you took to warn our
society to live together in the spirit of brotherhood and to be winners or sink
together as dissociated sinners.
REST IN POWER!
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