Seventeen Minutes

Some time ago, I noticed this extraordinary attribute of one of the most famous speeches in modern history, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther king, Jr.’s legendary “I Have A Dream” speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before a crowd of over 200,000 on the 28th of August, 1963. The speech lasted seventeen minutes. Not a half hour. Not an hour or longer as many pastors in our tradition tend to hammer us with every week. Dr. King changed the world in seventeen minutes, saying all that needed to be said to prick the conscience of a complacent nation accepting of a hateful class system denying basic human and civil rights to persons of color.   CONTINUED

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