Middle School Honors Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Before the victory is won.. some will be misunderstood and called bad names and dismissed as rebel-rousers and agitators… But we shall over come.
I'll tell you why.
We shall over come because the arch of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
We shall over come because Carlyle is right: "No lie can live forever".
We shall over come because William Collin Bryant is right: "Truth crushed to earth will rise again".
We shall over come because James Russel Lowell is right: "Truth forever on the scaffold.. Wrong forever on the throne… Yet that scaffold sways the future. And behind the dim unknown standeth God within the shadows, keeping watch above his own".
We shall over come because the Bible is right… "You shall reap what you sow".
We shall over come… Deep in my heart I do believe! We shall over come."
From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech, "We Shall Over Come", March 31, 1968
