We all have a dream

Personal paraphrase / interpretation of Martin Luther’s speech.

I have a dream

Posted December 7th, 2010 by Mark Rondot

 

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our planet !

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The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the humanitarian community must not lead us to a distrust of all money making profitable businesses or political parties, for many of our greedy brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today (in the ecological market) have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricalbly bound to our freedom.

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And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the Earth’s dream.

I have a dream that one day, this planet 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, around the charging bull statue of wall street, the sons of former homeless people and the sons of former millionaires and speculators will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the country of Somalia, a country sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of famine, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and repletion.

I have a dream that any children that I may have will one day live in a world where they or anyone else may never ever live in fear of starvation or not having a bed to sleep in during the cold nights of winter.

I have a dream today !

I have a dream that one day, down in the City, in London, with its vicious banquers, with its financial specialists and millionairs having their lips dripping with the words of “profit making” and “market shares” — one day right there in the City little homeless boys and girls will be able to join hands with little Oxford University boys and girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today !

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to work tomorrow morning with.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our world into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that will be free one day.

And if the World is to be a great World, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious planes of South Africa

Let freedom ring from the might moutains of Tibet.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Peru.

Let freedom ring from the snow capped Rockies of Switzerland.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of Bali.

But not only that :

Let freedom ring from the Eifel Tower of Paris.

Let freedom ring from the Statue of Liberty of New York.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every country and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, poor men and rich men, religious and atheists, lazy and workaholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual :

 

Free at last ! Free at last !

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last !

 

P.S. I mean no dis respect in any way by para phrasing Martin Luther King’s speech and hope no one will get offended by this, but honestly, if you take his speech, and adapt it in this kind of way, it brings shivers down my spine 🙂