"-I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King Jr. August 28, 1963
I say to you today, my friends,
even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow,
I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream.
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; thal all men are created equal".
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi,
a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression,
will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little 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.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists,
with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and little white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall be made low,
the rough places will be made plains,
and the crooked places will be made straight,
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all the flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation
into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together,
to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning,
"My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my father died, land of pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring".
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvacious slopes of California!
But not only that;
let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and mole hill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring, and when this happens,
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"!""""""""""""""""
Imagine cramming the American dream? well to tell u the truth, i had to cram it back in high school.
Our English teacher in form one back then Mr. Osoro(mapepa) sure that we(I) crammmed it for our own good. This were some of the few inspiring teachers i remember to this day.
" a mediocre teacher TELLS
a good teacher EXPLAINS
a great teacher DEMONSTRATES
but a superior teacher INSPIRES."
Well there is much to learn from martin luther's dream but all am trying to pinpoint here is the art of incentives. Humans in nature need various kinds of incentives to perfom.
As much as what we are going to do has positive effects in our lifes, sometimes we never see the urge to get serious with things cuz u got freedom to do it or not- only difference is that we are abusing our freedom by not doing that which we feel we ought to do but we don't do it.
Enough with the hullaballoo, this teacher promised us a 100/= then if u could recite the whole dream without reference. You can imagine way back then in 2005 what a form one could do with a mere 100/=. mandazi, loaf and more mandazi.
So it worked out that i won the whole 100/= and an additional one cuz am the only student who tried voluntary to memorize the whole speech in front of the class without being asked to. the other students were wetting their trousers trying to memorise a simple speech like this-though i have fofgotten it a little bit.
Imagine if our systems were like this, if only people were motivated to do what they do best?
Then i came to understand that inspiration and perspiration are different.
INSPIRATION should be the pivot, the driver, the motivator, the enhancer
the force that makes you moonlight to dead of night
the force that deprives you off all sleep
the force that gets you thinking, dreaming, visionalizing
the cooling effect of the fun when u sweat,
the sweet sweat that comes out of perspiration
cuz man sinned at the garden of eden, he was cursed by God
and so to rip benefits of our work- we have to really perspire.
Martin Luther King Jr. August 28, 1963
I say to you today, my friends,
even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow,
I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream.
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; thal all men are created equal".
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi,
a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression,
will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little 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.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists,
with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and little white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall be made low,
the rough places will be made plains,
and the crooked places will be made straight,
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all the flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation
into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together,
to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning,
"My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my father died, land of pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring".
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvacious slopes of California!
But not only that;
let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and mole hill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring, and when this happens,
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"!""""""""""""""""
Imagine cramming the American dream? well to tell u the truth, i had to cram it back in high school.
Our English teacher in form one back then Mr. Osoro(mapepa) sure that we(I) crammmed it for our own good. This were some of the few inspiring teachers i remember to this day.
" a mediocre teacher TELLS
a good teacher EXPLAINS
a great teacher DEMONSTRATES
but a superior teacher INSPIRES."
Well there is much to learn from martin luther's dream but all am trying to pinpoint here is the art of incentives. Humans in nature need various kinds of incentives to perfom.
As much as what we are going to do has positive effects in our lifes, sometimes we never see the urge to get serious with things cuz u got freedom to do it or not- only difference is that we are abusing our freedom by not doing that which we feel we ought to do but we don't do it.
Enough with the hullaballoo, this teacher promised us a 100/= then if u could recite the whole dream without reference. You can imagine way back then in 2005 what a form one could do with a mere 100/=. mandazi, loaf and more mandazi.
So it worked out that i won the whole 100/= and an additional one cuz am the only student who tried voluntary to memorize the whole speech in front of the class without being asked to. the other students were wetting their trousers trying to memorise a simple speech like this-though i have fofgotten it a little bit.
Imagine if our systems were like this, if only people were motivated to do what they do best?
Then i came to understand that inspiration and perspiration are different.
INSPIRATION should be the pivot, the driver, the motivator, the enhancer
the force that makes you moonlight to dead of night
the force that deprives you off all sleep
the force that gets you thinking, dreaming, visionalizing
the cooling effect of the fun when u sweat,
the sweet sweat that comes out of perspiration
cuz man sinned at the garden of eden, he was cursed by God
and so to rip benefits of our work- we have to really perspire.
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