America Still Breaths

In this historic time in which we live I am perplexed by what I see in our society. We (the American people) should be looking forward to the bright future America has. We (the American people) should give thanks for the advancements our nation has made not only for our country, but for the whole human race.

With great sadness I watch those among the masses of our country men and country women who feel a void within themselves. That emptiness has caused many to give up on freedom, and entangle themselves with hate. In 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his Strength to love sermon said "Like an unchecked cancer, hate erodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man sense of value and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful and to confuse the truth with the false and the false with the true."

Many American's hearts have melted and have become wax cold and insensitive to the call of liberty. We have forgotten the defiant words of Patrick Henry "Give me liberty or give me death." We have buried the poem of Emma Lazarus so deep within our subconscious that we have forgotten her words "Give me your tiered, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send the homeless, tempest - tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

Yes, I will admit that we live in trouble times, but I think we (the American people) can weather any storm that may come. A fellow homeless citizen I meet on the street of Atlanta, who goes by the name Apache told me "no matter what trouble comes I know it will be greater later." We (the American people) must know it will be greater for our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.