Hey everyone life has been crazy and fun lately. This past Monday was Martin Luther King Jr Day of Service. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of MLK day Batavia had two different events. The first was a reading of the “I had a dream speech”, this is one of my all time favorite speeches of all time and great to hear read live. Making it even cooler, a AmeriCorps member did the reading!!! I stop by the event to see him do the speech and enjoy the event.
However I had to jet from there to my own event. I have been helping to plan a service project for this day since October. The event had a number of different areas to it, there was no sewing fleece blanket making project for Agri-Business Child Development Center. We also had card making for members of the military. In total we had over 70 volunteers, made 30 blankets from fleece donated by Zonta Club of Batavia-Genesee and made over 100 cards that will be sent to member of the military overseas for Valentine’s Day.
Today is also a very special anniversary, today marks the 50th anniversary of the JFK inauguration address. This is one of my all time favorite speeches and I thought I should included some well known quotes from the speech today:
"...the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God."
"Let the word go forth.....that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans."
"The world is very very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life."
"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."
"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country"
"All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin."
"...let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own."
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