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“I have a dream.” On April 4th, the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination in Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee, I heard his lasting quote many times.
Iranian’s have for many years struggled and sacrificed for the same Dream Martin Luther King spoke of. They have suffered long and intolerable sentences and almost always reach a point where they would not even dare speak of the Dream. Placed in front of State Run Television Cameras, they were asked to say that the Dream is in fact forced on their lives and souls by the enemy.
Martin Luther King spoke of the Dream and established the Civil Rights movement in America, a peaceful movement that did not die with the assassination of its black leader but was joined up by the white population of America as well. It is now well established that the Civil Rights movement in America was founded by a black. Martin Luther King’s Dream turned into an organization and strengthen the backbone of Civil Right in America even though he was assassinated.
We also have a Dream. It matters not that we have been repeatedly assassinated, yet it is devastating that our Dream has been assassinated. In our country, it is not enough for the person with a Dream to be assassinated, but the Dream itself is most often targeted, a tragedy that repeatedly occurs throughout history.
Was the group who assassinated the Dream victorious at the end? Many think that it must be an accepted fact that the Dream has been assassinated in Iran. The Dream that prevents the Dreamer from having a peaceful life must be forgotten forever. Yet the Dream keeps resisting. If it is swept out of the door, it glides in through the window. The Dream cannot be blocked.
The one who withers away in the darkness of the dungeons always has a Dream, the Dream of freedom. Many things can be blocked but the Dream cannot be. Let it be known that we also have a Dream.
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