The Way out of Hell

"Is the Dream Big Enough?"  

 Is the dream of Martin Luther King Jr. big enough for freedom? 

I think so. That seems like an obvious conclusion.  I am not sure we recognize what it really means.  Was Dr. King talking only about freeing the Black people or was he also talking about freeing the White people? 

That is a very difficult concept.  Shackle a person and shackle yourself. Free a person to find freedom.  We are all connected in this human family that unless children cannot walk together, we are all in bondage.  

 His dream was about children of all races walking together. He was pointing to a generation beyond his own age because he knew it would take time.  However, in the image of “Black and White children walking together”—for me, it points to both being free.  In other words, until the Black child is free—the White child is ALSO in bondage

I know a quotation from the film Ghandi—not too far off in the use of peaceful resistance, non-violence.  It is one of the most powerful I have ever watched.

 

Nahari: I'm going to Hell! I killed a child! I smashed his head against a wall.
Gandhi: Why?
Nahari: Because they killed my son! The Muslims killed my son!
[indicates boy's height]
Gandhi: I know a way out of Hell. Find a child, a child whose mother and father have been killed and raise him as your own.
[indicates same height]
Gandhi: Only be sure that he is a Muslim and that you raise him as one.