“I have a scheme”

A half a century has passed since the greatest speech of my lifetime was delivered.

Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech still moves me to tears.

Read it. It is magnificent, so superior to the drivel delivered by our current president.

Barack Obama had such potential. His election PROVED that America had moved into a post-racial era. After all, a majority of white Americans voted for an African-American candidate…

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In praise of Dr. King and Mother Teresa

By Tom Quiner August 26th was a big day.  That was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. August 28th was another big day.  That was the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s epoch “I Have a Dream” speech. Mother Teresa didn’t know how to deliver a speech very well.  She’d…

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