Let Freedom Ring

by E. Alan Meece
prompt: Let Freedom Ring
Feb 8, 2026
UUFLG Band of Writers, Feb 8, 2026
My UU Band of Writers essays

A prayer that I say often that is loosely based on a portion of Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I have a dream" speech finale

https://youtu.be/Qyk8sYGghiQ?si=qWOXx9AqPzeSvNUz&t=708

This essay is edited slightly from the original that was composed and recited at the meeting

May all the tyrants fall that rule and attack these and other lands!

Let freedom ring in Ukraine. Let freedom ring in Gaza and Palestine. Let freedom ring all through Arabia. Let freedom ring in Iran. Let freedom ring in Afghanistan. Let freedom ring in Turkey and Hungary and throughout the EU so they keep it. Let freedom ring in suffering Sudan and Mali and all across The Sahel. Let freedom ring in Tunisia and Egypt. Let freedom ring in Burma, and in Thailand where their election may not count. Let freedom ring in China and North Korea.

But not only that---

Let freedom ring in Argentina and Chile. Let freedom ring in Venezuela. Let freedom ring in Ecuador. Let freedom ring in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras. Above all, let freedom ring in the United States of America. Let freedom ring through the tall streets of New York. Let freedom ring through the white-capped mountains of Montana and Colorado. Let freedom ring in Portland and Chicago. Let freedom ring through all the hills and molehills of Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas. Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring through the ICE and ice and snow of Minnesota. Let freedom ring that time has come for change in Washington DC. Let the clock chime that the time has come to let it run forward for progress to return again. And may it never stop until its arc reaches justice in America and everywhere in the world.