For the past two hundred years, our forefathers have risked life and limb for us
to be able to think, speak, write and publish as we please. Their sacrifices
came as a great beacon of light of hope to millions of human beings all around
the world, longing for freedom, justice and a life in dignity. It came as a
joyous daybreak to end the long night of their oppression.
But two hundred years later, we are still not truly free. Two hundred years
later, we see the advent of a new ‘Dark Age’. Two hundred years later, we are
facing the enslavement from a thinly disguised Jewish controlled corporate
dictatorship, euphemistically called ‘New World Order’. And so I’m writing to
you this sombre warning as an urgent request to raise to this enormous challenge
and defend the freedom and the rights for which our forefathers had fought so
hard.
In a sense I’m writing these words to
cash a check. When our rulers created the laws and constitutions of our
countries, they were signing a promissory note to which every human being was to
fall heir. This note was a promise that all men and women would be guaranteed
‘unalienable Rights’ of ‘Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness’. It is
obvious today that our rulers have defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as
non-Jewish citizens are concerned. Instead of honouring this sacred obligation,
we were given a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient
funds”.
But I refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. I refuse to
believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of
this great world. And so, I've come to cash this check, a check that will give
us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
I am also writing these words to remind everyone of the fierce urgency of Now.
This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the
tranquillising drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of
democracy. Now is the time to destroy the Judeo-Fascist ‘New World Order’ and
end this Orwellian ‘War onTerror’. Now is the time to lift our nations from the
quicksands of injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to
make justice a reality for all of God's children.
It would be fatal for all nations to overlook the urgency of the moment. This
growing mistrust and discontent with our rulers will not pass until we have
achieved true democracy. Two thousand and seven is not an end, but a beginning.
And those who hope that dissidents just need to blow off steam and will now be
content will have a rude awakening if our governments return to business as
usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquillity until true democracy is
achieved. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our
nations until the bright day of freedom and justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my fellow dissidents, who stand on the
warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining
our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to
satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and
hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and
discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical
violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting
physical force with soul force.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed our resistance must not lead us
to a distrust of all Jewish people, for many of our Jewish brothers, as
evidenced by their presence in the dissident community, have come to realise
that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realise
that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
We cannot turn back.
There are those who are asking the devotees of anti-Zionism, "When will you be
satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as Muslims and Christians in
Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon are the victim of the unspeakable
horrors of USraeli brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as the
Palestinian people is refused the right to return. We cannot be satisfied as
long as Jewish-controlled corporations plunder the wealth and the treasures of
an ever inceasing number of countries. We can never be satisfied as long as
USraeli troops occupy foreign lands, starve and poison their populations with
depleted uranium and torture and murder them by the millions. We cannot be
satisfied as long as Talmudic Jews consider non-Jews as racially inferior, more
cattle than human beings. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be
satisfied until “justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty
stream."¹
I am not unmindful that some of you are suffering of great trials and
tribulations. Some of you have family kept by USrael in narrow jail cells. And
some of you have personally been or have friends and family members who are the
victims of USraeli brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering.
Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Stay in
the occupied Palestinian Territories, stay in Afghanistan, stay in Sudan, stay
in Lebanon, stay in Iraq, go back to refugee camps and the destroyed houses of
your cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have
a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the human dream.
I have a dream that one day this world will rise up and live out the true
meaning of this creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal."
I have a dream that one day in sun-drenched Palestine, all Palestinian refuges
and their children and grand-children will be able to return to a united, free
and egalitarian Palestine.
I have a dream that one day the Middle-East, a region 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 little "mongrel" son will one day live in a world where
nobody is judged by his religion or the colour of his skin but by the content of
his character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, in Zionist occupied Palestine, with its vile Jewish
supremacists, with its politicians having their lips dripping words of “massive
military retaliation” and “segregation” – one day right there in Palestine,
little Palestinian boys and girls will be able to join hands with little Jewish
boys and girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day all our rulers realise that having power over other
people comes with responsibility for those people affected by that power. That
their first and foremost duty is to ensure that all basic needs of all human
beings are taken care of: water, food, housing, electricity, heating, education,
health, transport, safety, jobs.
This is my hope, and this is the faith that keeps me going with this fight.
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
mankind 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.
And this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to embrace each
other as their brothers and sisters. And when this happens, when we allow
freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every city, from every
state and every country, 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: