A child born to fullfill all of our dreams

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." Gloria Steinem

Over two hundred years ago, men of vision, wisdom, and daring, with a dream to make a more perfect world to live in, conceived into reality a newborn child. A child born free and independent from any foreign rule, or decree

Nurtured with love, and understanding by her many diverse parents. For her parents were the citizens of this nation. The people, who plow her earth, build her cities, sail her waters, make her laws, govern themselves, and protect her from her enemies.

A people, whose blood, sweat, and tears, consecrated the very ground we walk on. A land where one could dare to dream and see their dreams come true, a nation of immigrants united by a common belief in freedom

Her constitution: the result of bold new ideas from men with a profound belief that all men were created equal, has served her people with a just cause. For her laws insured to every one of her citizens the freedom to live the life they choose with the only provision being to live within her laws. Unconsciously all previous generations were a part of a dream concealed within us all. The dream within all human beings, to live in true emancipation, where peace, love, and unity will prevail, and the uniting of the world will become a reality.

Unfolding before our very eyes is the beginning of the impossible dream within us all. The dream where so many worked, struggled, sacrificed, and died for its fulfillment. This dream will become a reality when the divine interaction, which gave it life, and has been living in all of us since the beginning of time, is complete.

"I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream - a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality." Martin Luther King Jr.

"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one." John Lennon

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