When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic dream speech, he wasn’t being poetic. Almost everything he mentioned in that 16-minute speech was pithy but sensational. Expecting people to overlook the colour of the skin and peek within character sounds like a brand new idea except that it wasn’t. That particular notion has been reverberating through history—time and again, like a loop of thoughts that are destined to fail. Humans, by nature, seek the impossible. We don’t know how far the sky is but we want a piece of it for ourselves. Those are the limits of human aspiration.
Behind the closed curtains
Behind the closed curtains
Behind the closed curtains
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic dream speech, he wasn’t being poetic. Almost everything he mentioned in that 16-minute speech was pithy but sensational. Expecting people to overlook the colour of the skin and peek within character sounds like a brand new idea except that it wasn’t. That particular notion has been reverberating through history—time and again, like a loop of thoughts that are destined to fail. Humans, by nature, seek the impossible. We don’t know how far the sky is but we want a piece of it for ourselves. Those are the limits of human aspiration.