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means equality in a world society stricken by poverty and in a universe doomed to extinction by war."²

"The United States Negro," King continued, "with his black brothers of Africa and his brown and yellow brothers in Asia, South America, and the Caribbean, ... is moving with a great urgency toward the promised land of racial justice."³

If Martin Luther King was alive today, Mary King would remind him that sisters fight beside their brothers too.

Today, the struggle for liberty goes on -- here in the Caribbean, in every part of the United States, across the surface of the earth.

You are leaving this university as members of the class of 2000 -- on the brink of a new century, a time of great hope and promise.

There is today a sense of new possibilities, however overwhelming the world's problems may appear or however grim the headlines may read.

Wherever you go from here -- if there are hungry minds or bodies nearby, you can feed them. If there is a wealth gap, you can close it. If there is racial injustice, you can attack and destroy it.

An early attempt at eliminating illiteracy in the southern United States developed a slogan that was also their method -- "Each One Teach One" until all could read.

Perhaps as our world shrinks, we can adopt the slogan and method -- "Each One Reach One."

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