For this is all art’s desire:
To lead man’s mind to something higher,
And raise him from the ground
To where no compass points are found.
Without fearful hesitation
He rises, heaven his destination.
And, amid these higher spheres,
Even whispers reach his ears,
Distant world that eye can see
And the heart beats strong and free.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And when we allow freedom to ring,
when we let it ring from every village
and hamlet, from every state and city,
we will be able to speed up that day
when all of God’s children – black men
and white men, Jews and Gentiles,
Catholics and Protestants – will be
able to join hands and to sing in
the words of the old Negro spiritual,
“Free at last, free at last; thank
God Almighty, we are free at last.”

Martin Luther King

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