Let freedom ring

The Christian Science Monitor

A Little over twenty-six years ago, an estimated quarter of a million blacks and whites gathered together peacefully in the United States capital on a sweltering August day to hear Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., give what many feel was one of the most powerful speeches ever uttered in the name of human freedom.

"I have a dream," Dr. King cried, "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," he said, "that one day, on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."

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