God grant that right here in America and all over the world,

    we will choose the high way:

a way in which men will live together as brothers.

A way in which the nations of the world will beat their swords into plowshares,

    and their spears into pruning hooks.

A way in which every man will respect 

    the dignity and worth of all human personality.

A way in which every nation will allow justice to flow down like waters,

    and righteousness like a mighty stream.

A way in which men will do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God.

A way in which men will be able to stand up, 

    and in the midst of oppression, in the midst of darkness and agony,

    they will be able to stand there and love their enemies,

        bless those persons that curse them,

        pray for those individuals that despitefully use them.

And this is the way that will bring us once more into that society

    which we think of as the brotherhood of man.

This will be that day when white people, colored people,

    whether they are brown or whether they are yellow  or whether they are black,

    will join together and stretch out with their arms and be able to cry out:

“Free at last! Free at last! Great God Almighty, we are free at last!”

 

Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929 -1968, American pastor and civil rights activist

 

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And a highway will be there;
    it will be called the Way of Holiness;
    it will be for those who walk on that Way.
The unclean will not journey on it;
    wicked fools will not go about on it.
No lion will be there,
    nor any ravenous beast;
    they will not be found there.
But only the redeemed will walk there,
    and those the Lord has rescued will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;
    everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
    and sorrow and sighing will flee away.