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ISLAMABAD/ATLANTA: US President Joe Biden has said that civil rights champion late Martin Luther King’s dream of racial equality and justice has not become a reality, renewing his call to fight for the “soul of America.”
Martin Luther King’s Dream
Speaking at Martin Luther King Jr’s church in Atlanta, Georgia, the same church that the late human rights activist called his home, Biden said that he has spoken before the parliament, kings, queens, leaders of the world and he had been doing that for a long time, but that was intimidating.
Biden, who is visiting to mark the Martin Luther King holiday, which falls on Monday, recalled the famous speech delivered by the icon figure, who fought against racial discrimination and for civil rights, before he was killed in Memphis in 1968.
It is “a dream in which we deserve justice and liberty, and it has still a task of our time to make the dream a reality because it’s not there yet,” the US president said.
Biden said that the battle for the soul of this nation is perennial. It’s a constant struggle. It is a constant struggle between fear and hope, kindness and cruelty, injustice and justice.”
“The soul of America is embodied in a sacred proposition that we are all created equal and in the image of God. That was the holy proposition for which Luther gave his life,” he said.
Biden was invited to Atlanta by Raphael Warnock, the leading pastor of the church and a Democratic senator, who defeated a Republican candidate endorsed by ex-President Donald Trump in the mid-term elections held recently.
After welcoming his guest after the Gospel song, Warnock joked that Baptist service would probably seem “a little exuberant for a devout Catholic president.”
The service concluded with a choir singing “We Shall Overcome”, the anthem of the civil rights movement that was thought to have been based on a Gospel song.
