“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 Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

These were the last words spoken on Martin Luther King’s speech delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963.

This has been historically referred to as his, “I Have a Dream” speech.

Can you feel the intensity? The urgency? The need for significant and long lasting change?

I can feel it. I felt it just now when I read the words aloud and I let the moment flow through me. But I might never ever FEEL it.

Segregation. Slavery. Racism.

I think I know. But I don’t know.

I read Martin Luther King’s, “Letter from Birmingham Jail”.

There is a part that reads, “But they have acted in the faith that right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.”

Act in the faith that right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

Somewhere on the walls of stone around my heart these words have been tagged in graffiti.

It’s a secret truth I’ve been living by but never told myself.

Secret’s out.