At this moment there is oppression happening in this world, in some third world countries, instead of Joining Boy Scouts you would be joining a war. Today, there are children that are sold into slavery, today there are countries where women are treated worse than animals, today there are countries where people kill each other because of religion.

What Martin Luther King did was for all Americans, his peaceful revolution resulted in a true Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.

“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 my four 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”.

“This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.”

“When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., received the Nobel Peace Prize. He would turned over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.

”I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord"

      . . . The following day, April 4 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed.