Dr. King's life taught us that hope is most useful when the evidence runs the other way toward despair. Set against dark times, hope points us toward something better.
Dr. King's ministry took place in a country marked by segregation, an unpopular war abroad and the widespread social and economic disenfranchisement of African Americans.
The troubled times many of us feel we are in make Dr. King's message especially relevant. The occasion of the I Have a Dream speech came in the wake of a long season of anti-Black violence.
When Dr. King imagined that someday the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners would sit down together, that dream served as an alternative to the bloody and dispiriting reality.
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