British Airways 'Change for Good' partners mark funding milestone with Tanzania visit DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, 17 September 2008 – 'Change for Good', the successful fundraising partnership between British Airways and UNICEF, recently celebrated a milestone of £25 million raised since the programme was launched with BA in 1994.
As Martin Luther King said in his time about the "promissory note" on black rights, the check has been returned marked "insufficient funds".
Instead of honouring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad cheque, a cheque which has come back marked "insufficient funds".
Martin Luther King, Jr., in his speech in Washington in August , 1963 compared the commitments of the Constitution to a check that had, in the past, "come back marked 'insufficient funds.' " The time had come, he said, to cash it.
In his address at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. told the crowd of the "bad check" marked "insufficient funds" that America had given black Americans, challenging the country to deliver on its promise of freedom and justice for all.
"...America has given the Negro people a bad check, which has come back marked, 'insufficient funds'..
A hundred years later we are still been issued a bad check -- which comes back marked insufficient funds.
Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds".
"When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir... Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked insufficient funds".
Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check; a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds".[2
The mathematician-turned-billionaire hedge fund manager will reveal in his end of the year letter to clients that 2008 marked "the fund's best annual performance to date".
