We've Come A Long Way?

Here is a little food for thought. If you follow my blog posts at all, you know that I am working on a book. This book is to be a collection of wisdom written by my mother (I call her Mom:). Today as I was enjoying this process, I came across this letter. I had to share because it fits so well in present time.

We've Come a Long Way

Dear Sir,

It is truly beautiful to see so many people reaching out to help one another. Not just in this fair city, but in all areas of the world as well.

Many great minds throughout the ages of humanity have uttered words concerning the vision needed to produce growth and strength with the race. Growth relating to qualities which are pursuant to those causes borne out of loving and caring. Strengths stemming from those characteristics which are undeniably linked to the fundamentals required in the bonding together of all that pertains to right human relations.

It is these qualities carried over from by-gone days that make this Earth the great and magnificent training ground we are privileged to be a part of today. There can be no doubt that those problems facing us presently are as great, if not to some extent greater, than those of our forebears, similar though they may be, yet on a far grander scale, regarding their influential properties.

It can no longer be said that we are a people set apart, for indeed, we are linked as one giant family from one end of the earth to the other. It is evident to all who desire better living conditions that a certain set of responsibilities go hand in hand with the gaining and maintaining of the same. We cannot, as a people desirous of right human relationships, allow room for complacency or bigotry (if I may use such time-worn phrases) in our lives.

Indeed, we must seek, with hearts and minds attuned to those freedoms for which this country was founded, that middle road which holds the keys to a more futuristic plan. A plan designed to uphold truth, setting aside our former fears, anxieties, and posthumous attitudes which not only hinder progress but if allowed would annihilate truth altogether.

The truth is that all humans, not regardless of race, color or creed but rather because of these various backgrounds and their inherent qualities, i.e. culture, creative abilities, willingness to participate in this nation’s growth, whatever it takes, shall be entitled via this nation’s great constitution to those freedoms in their entirety of which we boast.

Granted, we’ve a long way to go before we can realize the completion of the plan, but surely those whose hearts and minds are at-one with those forms we presently call truth, justice and mercy, will agree. We’ve come a long way from the one-room schoolhouse.

Martha Martin,


P.S. From Sally, owner of this blog and Nature And Flower Pictures If I didn’t know better, I would almost say that Martha wrote this article for President Obama himself. What do you think? Actually it was written more in the time when Martin Luther King was alive and our country was going through another set of growing pains. Yes indeed we have come a long way, or have we?