These words were spoken on April 3, 1968 - he died the next night on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. In his 39 years he left a mark on American society that is unlike any other and millions of African-Americans are his beneficiaries and all Americans have realized the benefits of his courageous battle for civil rights. King steadfastly stood for non-violence, and in fact traveled to Memphis on that fateful day to attempt to turn aside a violent stripe that had arisen in the civil rights movements.
In his famous, "I Have a Dream" speech delivered in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963 King said,
"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.
I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today.
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 shall see it together."
What magnificent words, and yet greater dreams. King was a champion of the African American and is rightly reckoned as a man who rightly mirrors the words of Jesus who said, "Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his life for his friends." Martin Luther King Jr. laid down his life for that "dream."
Because we celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King almost exactly one week before we mark the anniversary of the enactment of the landmark Supreme Court Decision Roe v. Wade which legalized abortion, establishing the rights of a woman as greater than the rights of her unborn child; I have been forced to wonder what Martin Luther King Jr. would have had to say about Roe v. Wade? I wonder what speech he might give on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on January 23, 2011 had he lived to witness the slaughter of almost 50 million unborn children? (It is important to note that statistically 64% of all abortions performed in America are performed on Black and Hispanic women.)
I wonder if Dr. King's "dream" included the systematic murder of approximately 450,000 African American children every year? I wonder if his dream included such men as Hermit Gosnell who was arrested in Philadelphia and indicted on eight counts of murder, which included seven newborn infants, who were born alive and viable, but murdered with a pair of scissors shoved into the base of their skull severing the spinal cord. Who knows how many hundreds of babies were murdered in his clinic as he "performed as many abortions as he could over a thirty year period" making millions of dollars?
Martin Luther King had a dream of an America that would allow Kermit Gosnell, himself an African American, to grow up to become a doctor, but I suspect it was so he could heal, not so he could enrich himself over the bodies of murdered black babies. The Associate Press says that "he catered to minorities, immigrants and poor women was charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors..."
This of all things surely to Martin Luther King would not be a dream, but a nightmare. In the USA today, every month; more African Americans are killed by abortions than were killed by all other causes since the Civil War! They have the largest percentage of abortions by race in the USA...
I highlight abortion among African Americans ONLY because of the proximity of the date of the anniversary of Roe V. Wade to Dr. King's birthday. Surely this is national blight that affects all races. Abortions have caused more deaths [going on 50 million] in the USA than all the wars, plus all the disasters both natural and man made; including all the hurricanes, fires, volcanoes, tornadoes, floods, and such occurrences.
As we approach Sanctity of Life Sunday I want to call upon all men who love life to renew our commitment to overturning this wickedness and restoring a sense of sanity to our once great nation. We are surely inviting the wrath of God upon our own lives and the lives of our children if we continue in the madness of abortion. It simply may be too late, but I keep thinking of Nineveh, that wicked city that repented suddenly and turned to God in sack cloth and ashes to be spared. May God grant us repentant hearts as well and may He grant us the same mercy as shown to Nineveh.
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