the last thing that played on my ipod for my evening run ….
“We shall overcome; we shall overcome, deep in my heart I do believe we shall overcome.
And I believe it because somehow the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.
We shall overcome because Carlyle is right: ‘No lie can live forever.’
We shall overcome because William Cullen Bryant is right: ‘Truth crushed to earth will rise again.’
We shall overcome because James Russell Lowell is right: ‘Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. Yet, that scaffold sways the future and behind the dim unknown standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.’
With this faith we will be able to hue out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.”
(Martin Luther King, Sermon at Temple Israel of Hollywood, delivered 26 February 1965)
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