A few years ago, we scored a vacation to the Bahamas (thank you FIL!), and the day we left Nassau was Dr. King's birthday. The cab driver that took us to the airport (can't remember her name) was an older, proud Bahamian woman. It came up that it was Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday. My brother-in-law, being both a genius and a school teacher, proceeded to give our driver a history lesson about the American Civil Rights movement....to which she replied, "Dr. King helped change things here, too. There were many places on the islands where people of African descent were not allowed to go unless they were working and we also had separate accomodations. He didn't just change America, he made things change all over the world."
From his speech, "The Birth of a New Nation":
"That’s the beauty of this thing: all flesh shall see it together. Not some from the heights of Park Street and others from the dungeons of slum areas. Not some from the pinnacles of the British Empire and some from the dark deserts of Africa. Not some from inordinate, superfluous wealth and others from abject, deadening poverty. Not some white and not some black, not some yellow and not some brown, but all flesh shall see it together. They shall see it from Montgomery. They shall see it from New York. They shall see it from Ghana. They shall see it from China."
Still believing in your dreams. Thank you Dr. King
