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THE ALBINA MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE
Annual Martin Luther King, Jr.
Worship Celebration
s p e d a i e d i ion
January 15. 2014
I Have a Dream
Delivered Aug. 28, 1963 at the
Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC
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Sunday, January 19, 2014
Alien Temple CME Church
4236 NE 8th Avenue
Portland, OR 97211
5:00 pm.
OPEN AND FREE TO THE PUBLIC
A FREEWILL OFFERING WILL BE RECEIVED
For questions please contact:
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well as white men, would be guaranteed the
I am happy to join with you today in what will
"unalienable Rights" o f "Life, Liberty and the
go down in history as the greatest dem onstra pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that
tion for freedom in the history of our nation.
America has defaulted on this prom issory note,
Five score years ago, a great American, in insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.
whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed
Instead of honoring this sacred obligation,
the Emancipation Proclamation. This m om en America has given the Negro people a bad
tous decree came as a great beacon light of hope check, a check which has come back marked
to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared
"insufficient funds."
in the flames of withering injustice. It came as
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice
a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are
captivity.
insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this
not free. One hundred years later, the life of the check, a check that will give us upon demand the
Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of riches of freedom and the security of justice.
segregation and the chains of discrimination.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to
One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a remind America of the fierce urgency of Now.
lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling
ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years o ff or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradual
later, the Negro is still languished in the com ers
ism. Now is the time to make real the promises
of American society and finds him self an exile in of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the
his own land. And so we've come here today to dark and desolate valley of segregation to the
dramatize a shameful condition.
sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital
lift our nation from the quicksands of racial
to cash a check. When the architects of our injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now
republic wrote the m agnificent words of the
is the time to make justice a reality for all of
Constitution and the Declaration of Indepen God's children.
dence, they were signing a promissory note to
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the
which every American was to fall heir. This note urgency of the moment. This sweltering sum
was a promise that all men, yes, black men as mer of the Negro's legitim ate discontent will not
P O R TLA N D P U B LIC S C H O O L S
Remembering Dr. King
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of goods and services. Throughout the year, we purchase a variety of
items including office equipment, school supplies, paper products,
maintenance services, construction projects and more.
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men are caught
in an inescapable
network o f mutuality.
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.