By Lauren | August 28, 2013
Fifty years ago today, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of the most famous speeches in history. Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. King galvanized an
By Lauren | August 28, 2013
Fifty years ago today, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of the most famous speeches in history. Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. King galvanized an audience of almost a quarter of a million people with his dream of a just and united America. Fifty years later, his words remain as important and relevant, his dream as beautiful and poignant, as they were then.
I wonder, though, if we haven’t become too cynical as a society to really appreciate the value of a dream. Self-reliance has always been an important element of our national character, but I sometimes think we’ve gone so far toward requiring everyone to be completely self-sufficient that we’ve lost sight of the simple fact that people do better together than they do alone. For that matter, we’ve become so certain that the sole purpose of business is to raise money that I often think we’ve forgotten that the primary purposes of business include