Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence
ABERJHANIIn your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.
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Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
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Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.
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The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own
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The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time.from poem Blood and Blossoms
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Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
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And other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.
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Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
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Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
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All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.
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Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer
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Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
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When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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Delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.
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Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown.
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With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America is not a leader whose way is that of violent public outbursts.
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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Experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their “pursuit of happiness” to outright obliterating it.
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Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails
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Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.
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The Emancipation Proclamation…can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree
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