I STILL HAVE A DREAM........ (r)

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I wonder why you didn't win the award of Martin Luther King Jr. award and why Ko Tun Myint of Indiana won it.

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On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 06:07:37   Mg Yoe wrote:
>Dear all activists...
>
>Let me relay you the excerpts from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
>
>"Due to my involvement in the struggle for the freedom of my people, I have 
>known very few quiet days in the last few years.  I have been imprisoned in 
>Alabama and Georgia jails twelve times.  My home has been bombed twice.  A 
>day seldom passes that my family and I are not the recipients of threats of 
>death.  I have been the victim of a near-fatal stabbing.  So in a real sense 
>I have been battered by the storms of persecution.
>(from Strength to Love by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
>
>"...I say to you, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of 
>today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.
>    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, sons of former 
>slaves and tha sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit 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 the 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.
>    This is our hope.  This is the faith that I go back to the South with.  
>With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a 
>stone of hope.  With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling 
>discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.  With this 
>faith, we will be able to work together, to struggle together, to stand up 
>for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day."
>(from "I have a dream by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
>
>I think Our Movement for Democracy and Human Rights in Burma needs Strong 
>Moral Characters......
>
>With Respect...
>Mg Yoe
>
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