real utopias

Avram Noam Chomsky (/ˈnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician political commentator, ...

American Politics & Adventure - The Year (1964) of Social Revolution (Civil & Political Rights) American Politics & Adventure - The Year (1964) of Social ...

Date - January 9, 2015.

Video by Noam Chomsky’s Views.

Fifty years after the march, 150 years after emancipation and 500 years since that first black conquistador set foot in the New World, there is no doubt that much work remains to be done if we are to fulfill the promise of America for all of its citizens, including the sons and daughters of the slaves. As I sat next to Glenn and Miss Marguerite, one of the few living veterans of both marches, it occurred to me that the speakers on the platform at the first march, and the hundreds of thousands of citizens surrounding the reflecting pool who composed their marching, triumphant audience, had been motivated by one common goal: the unshakable determination to teach America to dream again, to dream the dream of freedom upon which this great country of ours was founded, to make real its revolutionary ideals, so that they can be embraced by each of its citizens, regardless of race, gender, creed, national origin or class. After all, that was the promise that America held out to the world’s nations, the fulfillment of the aspirations of millennia of the world’s great civilizations. And so I close with two of my favorite lines from the black tradition: “We’ve come this far by faith” and “We have not come this far alone.” May these words continue to guide us for the next 50—indeed, the next 500—years.