“But he felt a rift in the church of the body of Christ and he felt he could do something to heal that rift, he would do it. “It was an apology for what had happened. Martin Luther King delivered his iconic I Have A Dream speech on August 28th 1963 at a civil rights rally in Washington DC that was officially known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. “I saw a note from First Presbyterian church – typed, generated by a machine,” McKinney said in a videotaped interview. McKinney, would remain the pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church until his retirement in 1998.Īnd 37 years later, the new pastor at First Presbyterian would be in touch … In Philadelphia, he would see doctors about a stab wound from 1958. Two of his appearances would be delayed by bomb threats. King would travel to seven more cities that month. ‘There is a strange illusion that time will solve problems,’ Dr. King takes strong issue with this philosophy. He has critics among Negro leaders who believe the Negroes should go slow – catch up with court decisions – consolidate and let time heal scars. King, superbly educated and articulate, unquestionably is the leader of Negroes who take a militant position on civil rights. He called America a dream that has not been fully realized because it has divided itself because of racial segregation and religious bigotry. “If he came as a preacher, his sermon was the gospel of human rights, as guaranteed to all in the Constitution. It doesn’t even say all theists and believers, it says all men, which includes humanists and agnostics.” It doesn’t say all protestants, it says all men, which includes Catholics. It does not say all gentiles, it says all men, which includes Jews. It says all men, which includes black men. “The first saying we notice in this dream is an amazing universalism. “In those majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, words lifted to cosmic proportions: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by God, Creator, with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." “This is a dream. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight 'and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh 2 This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with. McKinney, in a taped recording, said was an earlier version of “I Have a Dream.” 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 nation. This was his “American Dream” speech, which his friend Rev. King told students they should do “creative” protest to break down barriers of discrimination.
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