Introduction:
(1Corinthians 13:13) And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. (Of course, the word charity means love in this context.)
There are some who question King’s hope for America. Some claim that toward the end of his life he had lost hope in America as a nation where Blacks could live as fully integrated citizens with all the rights and opportunities Whites possessed. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I do believe such people are unfairly misrepresenting what he said.
In my video entitled We as a People Will Get to the Promise Land I deal with the issue of dream turning into a nightmare but still having hope. King clearly says though he had started to see his dream had turned into a nightmare, he still had the dream. Even his last speech shows he had hope in America to the very last day of his life.
References:
Montgomery Boycott Video
A Christmas Sermon on Peace (1967) – Four years after the I Have a Dream speech. So he realized things were more difficult than he probably thought in 1963.
King I Been to the Mountaintop Video (1968). King Last Speech before Assassination. Though he had realized things were very difficult, he still had hope in his final days that we as a people would get to the promise land. So no, he did not give up on the dream even if it was a nightmare. We also should not give up.
Role of the Law According to Holy Bible Video
Martin Luther King Jr as a Christian Rooted in Faith, Hope, and Love
