I have a dream...

I have a dream that one day this Nation will rise up and live out
the true meaning of its creeds ---'we hold these truths to be self-evident
that all men are created equal'.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of slaves
and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the
table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi,
sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression,
will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream today...

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nostalgia

Nostalgia.. may depend.. on the irrecoverable nature of
the past for its emotional impact and appeal.
It is the very pastness of the past, its inaccessibility, that accounts for a large part of nostalgia's power...This is rarely the past as actually experienced, of course; it is the past as imagined, as idealized through memory and desire.

-Linda Hutcheon-