RockyTop572
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I Have A Dream
By: Rockytop572
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our VolNation.
It would be fatal for the VolNation to overlook the urgency of the moment.
Five Bama scores ago, hope still remained. Not the original hope for which we hoped. Instead, a hope of crushing someone else's hope. However, in turn, it was our own secondary hopes that were then crushed.
When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of Rocky Top, they were signing the proclamation of a wish, nay, a dream.
This song was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of tradition, fight, and the pursuit of victory.
But let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for victory by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of the Vols, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Vols are the victim of the unspeakable horrors of Bama brutality.
We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by Gameday signs stating, "Fire Phil".
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, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow. I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the Volunteer dream.
I have a dream that one day this VolNation will rise up...live out the true meaning of its creed. To carry the fight.
I have a dream.
Go Vols!
By: Rockytop572
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our VolNation.
It would be fatal for the VolNation to overlook the urgency of the moment.
Five Bama scores ago, hope still remained. Not the original hope for which we hoped. Instead, a hope of crushing someone else's hope. However, in turn, it was our own secondary hopes that were then crushed.
When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of Rocky Top, they were signing the proclamation of a wish, nay, a dream.
This song was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of tradition, fight, and the pursuit of victory.
But let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for victory by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of the Vols, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Vols are the victim of the unspeakable horrors of Bama brutality.
We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by Gameday signs stating, "Fire Phil".
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, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow. I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the Volunteer dream.
I have a dream that one day this VolNation will rise up...live out the true meaning of its creed. To carry the fight.
I have a dream.
Go Vols!
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