Gandhi and King: Becoming the Dream

Amy Hindman

Season for Non-Violence           January 2007

Today marks the season again

to remember the voices of Gandhi and King

non-violence is the theme and becoming the change in the world

we wish to see becoming it you and me,

becoming it you and me

CHORUS: Cause its an inside job to be free

in the midst of confusion, pain, apathy

love is the power to enlighten me,

beyond small mind, it’s the key

Got to open my mind wide, open my heart wide

allowin’ it all in free from judgment, fear and separation

being compassion and light

Mahatma Gandhi, he believed

that the only devils in this world we see

 are those running rampant in humanity,

creating a nightmare, it seems

“an eye for an eye makes the (whole) world blind (Gandhi)

“injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” (ML King)

And Martin Luther King had a dream

that one day all would be free

that all races be joined hand in hand

and see the power of peace throughout the land

“We shall overcome, we shall overcome,

we shall overcome some day

oh deep in my heart, I do believe that we shall overcome some day”*

Got to open our minds wide, open our hearts wide

Becoming the change, the vision we wish to see

becoming it you and me

becoming it you and me

**Rev. Charles Tindley, 1903 wrote “I Shall Overcome”

“We Shall Overcome” was rewritten during the Civil Rights Movement

and became its anthem.  © Pete Seeger, 1964