"I have a dream"

50 AÑOS DE LA MUERTE DE MARTIN LUTHER KING, LUCHADOR POR LA IGUALDAD DE DERECHOS DE LOS NEGROS EN LA SOCIEDAD DE LOS EEUU DE NORTEAMÉRICA EN LOS AÑOS SESENTA DEL SIGLO PASADO.

PREAMBULO DE LA CARTA DE DERECHOS FUNDAMENTALES DE LA UE

AÑO 2000

 "Los pueblos de Europa, al crear entre sí una unión cada vez más estrecha, han decidido compartir un porvenir pacífico basado en valores comunes. Consciente de su patrimonio espiritual y moral, la Unión está fundada sobre los valores indivisibles y universales de la dignidad humana, la libertad, la igualdad y la solidaridad, y se basa en los principios de la democracia y del Estado de Derecho. Al instituir la ciudadanía de la Unión y crear un espacio de libertad, seguridad y justicia, sitúa a la persona en el centro de su actuación".

Una parte de este reconocimiento de la igualdad de derechos de todos los europeos, independientemente de su nacionalidad, credo, raza o condición, se debe a la lucha que desde 1776 los europeos y los norteamericanos llevan desarrollando por lograr sociedades más justas.

Hoy, en los 50 años de la muerte del Doctor King, un recuerdo a que la lucha no está acabada. La lucha continua, día a día, y ceder en el empeño es perder el esfuerzo de generaciones y comprometer la vida y el pleno desarrollo de nuestros hijos.

Un fragmento de su discurso en Washington, en 1963

"I have a dream"

" In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds. (...)

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.(...)

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "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 former 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, a state 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 that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today! (...)"