"We must continue to dream the impossible dream. This is the only way really that we can be faithful to the greatest dreamer that ever lived--Jesus Christ. That great man who dreamed impossible dreams and who got lynched on the cross...
[A list of the impossible dreams of black Catholics:]
A Church where there is no thought of closing inner-city, black Catholic schools because of money, while allowing surburban [sic] white Catholic schools to flourish.
A Church where there are Catholic hospitals that give free medical care to the poor.
Bishops, priests, and nuns going into the homes of our poor and sharing their meals with them, just as they dine at our country clubs and motels.
A Church where young people are encouraged to participate by being given responsible positions of real authority.
A Church where Martin Luther King Jr. is accepted as a saint as readily as St. Patrick, St. Boniface or Our Lady of Czestochowa.
A Church that ceases to 'convert' black people until they have learned how to understand black people.
A Church which does not set up phony goals of surface integration.
A Church that sincerely attempts to bring about black [self-] determination...
I truly recognize that the progress that has been made down through the centuries has been accomplished by impossible dreamers. And the impossible dreamers, they become such a source of embarrassment that our society finds it necessary to kill them in the hope of killing their dreams.
A bullet is the answer that is given to many of our dreams. But I truly do not believe that anyone can really kill the impossible dreamer."
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