In fact, the reason why America is the envy of the world is the fact that we are able to look at our resources regardless of how limited and narrow they may be and allowed ourselves to imagine something better. We challenged ourselves to think up of a world that goes beyond our present limitations.

In other words, we did not focus on the things that bound and limited us. We didn’t obsess about the seeming scarcity of ideas and resources that seem to always drag us back and hold us down. Instead of allowing our realities to be simply ang singularly molded by limitations as they existed at a particular point in our history, we chose to bravely look into the future even though people around us were doubtful.

Even though people pointed fingers and insulted the visionaries, they kept pushing. They kept dreaming. Regardless of whether they were met by police batons, police dogs, water hoses and all sorts of obstacles, they knew that there was a better future for America. They knew that there was such a thing as a progressive tomorrow and they bet everything that they had to make that vision happen.