There is so much in Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech that we forget portions of it.  Listening to it today this stood out:

“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.  Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.”

That bears repeating some 56 years later because it is timeless:  “Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive….  Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.”