One Man Come In The Name of Love...

"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 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 slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little 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."

And so, in no small way, it has come to pass.

In Remembrance of America's Mahatma, The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr... sing

One man come in the name of love
One man come and go
One come he to justify
One man to overthrow

In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love

One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resist
One man washed on an empty beach.
One man betrayed with a kiss

In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love

Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride

In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love...

January 19, 2009

“Unity is the great need of the hour” spoke Dr. King “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny”.

January 19th is the day set aside for remembrance of Dr. King and the revolution he helped lead and which will bear witness to one of it’s greatest achievements on January 20th , 2009. 45 years from the passage of the Civil Rights Act, 144 years from the conclusion of our Civil War; President-Elect Barack Obama will take the Oath of Office and become the 44th President of our United States. The first African-American in our History.

President-Elect Obama has called for a National Day of Service for all Americans on this years Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Whatever form this may take, let us all join together in that “single garment of destiny” and remember that our time is now… that out of many, we are one… that “we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty”.

Yes We Can.

Yes We Did.

Yes We Will.