And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when allof God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, 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!
– Martin Luther King, Jr. from The Great March on Washington
It’s almost 50 years later, and this rings truer than ever. Sometimes I wonder if we’ll ever get here.
