MLK: Dreams Deferred Deterred Delivered
“We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always right to do right.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always right to do right.” Martin Luther King Jr.
And to deliver our dreams!
Listen to it again:
and again…my favorite…
Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.
You don’t have to have a college degree to serve.
You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.
I have spent these recent days dreaming of dreams… how to deliver dreams deferred and deterred as best I can to my determined students …
Harlem
“Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy,” writes Seth Godin in section 19 of Stop Stealing Dreams. “The dreams we need are self-reliant dreams. We need dreams based not on what is but on what might be. We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.”
What are your dreams? How have your educational experiences deterred, deferred or delivered your dreams? How can we stop stealing dreams?
What are your resolutions in 2023? What are environmental and social issues that you want to take action about in 2023?
Check out these posts in tribute and recognition of Martin Luther King:
- 2020 Martin Luther King “Let US Not Despair”
- 2019 “Today Let Freedom Ring with “Moodswings–Spiritual High” featuring Chrissie Hynde and MLK I love this!
- 2018 includes text of “I Have a Dream” speech and a couple of videos
- 2017 includes gratitude for Pesident Obama
- 2016 links to speeches and other dreams
- 2015 remembering Michele Serros also
- 2014 includes text and links to:
Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.
You don’t have to have a college degree to serve.
You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. - 2009 MLK walked to Barack Obama could run: includes part 3 of an amazing video
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