Katie and Mea Culpa

This is my favorite part of one of Martin Luther King Jr’s most famous speeches. Given in 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial. Did you know that this part wasn’t even in the scripted speech?

“I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream 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 that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.”

Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 78 today. (the same age as Coretta Scott King, who died last year in Mexico)