Word: dreamers
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Another King protégé, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, offered a sterner message in a sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. King was not merely a non-threatening dreamer, said Jackson. "Dr. King was not assassinated for dreaming but for acting and challenging the government." He went on to lambaste President Reagan for failing to support any of King's efforts during his lifetime...
...world where identity is a fluid and invisible concept, ever-changing and unreliable, and thus where the only true qualifications a person has are the creativity of his (or her!) art and the strength of his or her argument. And lest you think I’m a dreamer, I’d like to point out that my world, or at least some facsimile of it, exists—and you enter it every time you turn on your computer and open your web browser or instant messaging client...
...living in a primarily Jewish community (either in Galilee or what is now Lebanon), he was brought up, like most of his neighbors, on the Jewish Scriptures (which Christians now know as the Old Testament). Making someone called Joseph a recipient of prophetic dreams would evoke an earlier dreamer of the same name: the Joseph whose sleeping visions of fat and lean cows in the Book of Genesis helped pull his people into Egypt and indirectly to their destiny at Mount Sinai as recipients of God's covenant laws. Matthew's Joseph too will soon move to Egypt, fleeing there...
...He’s a dreamer, but he will work to get it done,” Franklin says...
...most impressed, however, by Moore and Nichols as individuals. Moore is a person that any student, regardless of title, can approach with an idea or concern and have it addressed. He is a listener, but also a dreamer, who has big ideas and the determination to make them reality. Nichols balances Moore’s widespread appeal and fresh perspective with the experience of a three-year council veteran. I am confident from my experiences with him as Finance Committee vice-chair while I was a student group president that he has the understanding of administrative navigation to shepherd Moore?...