“THE YEAR OF THE CHILD”

Nobel Laureate
Marie Kimberley Ann Knight md
43rd President of the United States
Architect of the Capitol

WE ARE SPEAKING TODAY ABOUT THE DIRECTION OF THE COUNTRY.

UNDERSCORING OUR MANY EFFORTS SINCE 1971, WHEN FIRST APPOINTED PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES AS A YOUNG UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT JUSTICE NAMED BY
PRESIDENT GERALD FORD, WE WERE TO OVERCOME THE FACTORS OF THE TIME THAT
IMPERILED NOT ONLY THE PEOPLE, BUT THEIR SPIRIT, AND THEIR VERY EXISTENCE.
BLACK PEOPLE WERE BEING BRUTALLY MURDERED AND DISPLAYED. AS A MEMBER OF THE
BLACK COMMUNITY AND THE MEDIA, AND AS A HEAD OF STATE, IT PAINED ME GREATLY
TO WITNESS THE INJURY, AND TO SEE THE MEDIA UTILIZED AS A TOOL TO INJURE THE LIFE
OF THE PEOPLE.
WE LOOKED AT THE COUNTRY AND THE EXPERIENCE HELD BY MANY PEOPLE. AND THE
PALPABLE GRIEF WAS EVIDENT AS MANY ANGUISHED OF THE LOSS OF PRESIDENT KENNE-
DY, AND THE TRAGIC LOSS OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING.
THE DETRITUS OF VIETNAM AND THE PAUCITY OF RESOURCES HAD THE WORLD LOOKING
FOR HOPE, THROUGH A LENS WHERE THE HISTORY OF THE TIME KNEW THE VERY
BREATH OF LIFE……..AND THE WHITE HOUSE, AFLUTTER EACH DAY THROUGH 1970 WITH
THE HONORED PRESENCE OF SIX PRESIDENTS, DR. KING, AND MANY WASHINGTONIANS,
SOUNDED UPON THE NEED TO LEAD THE NATION OUT OF THE STRUGGLE FOR ITS OWN
HUMANITY.
DR. KING’S POWERFUL “MOUNTAINTOP” SPEECH CARRIED FORWARD STILL, AND PRESI-
DENT FORD FIRST NAMED ANN KNIGHT AS A UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT JUSTICE,
AND THEN LATER, AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. IT WAS THE YEAR OF THE
CHILD….A POWERFUL SPRIT OF HOPE….ONE THAT RANG OUT FOR MANY YEARS TO COME
IN MY COMPOSITION, “THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL” PERFORMED BY GEORGE BENSON,
AND LATER, BY WHITNEY HOUSTON.
IT ECHOED THE SADNESS MANY FELT AS THEY SAT IN THE DARK AND LOOKED FOR AN-
SWERS OF HOW TO SOLVE THE REMAINING ISSUES OF RACIAL STRIFE IN THE COUNTRY,
AND TO CREATE A MORE EQUAL STANDARD OF LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE.
IT OVERCAME THE REALITIES OF WARFARE, DIM NEGLECT AND DEPRESSION TO LOOK
TO THE SPIRIT OF THE CHILD, THE FUTURE, THE PROMISE OF LOVE AND HAPPINESS,
HOPE AND FREEDOM, AND FILLED US WITH A VICTORIOUS BEAUTY IN THE SUCCESS OF
OUR NEW FOUND CIVIL RIGHTS.
PRESIDENT ANN KNIGHT ENACTED THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT AND AMMENDMENT OF 1971
ON THE STEPS OF THE CAPITOL, IN FRONT OF 350 SUPPORTERS AND MEMBERS OF THE
WASHINGTON COMMUNITY WHO JUMPED FOR JOY AS SHE PRAISED A “BRAND NEW
DAY” WHERE AMERICANS COULD LIVE AND BREATHE FREELY, SEEK EMPLOYMENT,
EARN MONEY, MAINTAIN MUTUAL RESPECT, A STANDARD OF DECENCY, KINDNESS,
COMPASSION, CHRISTIAN FAITH, STRENGTH, AND BROTHERHOOD, MAINTAIN THEIR
HOUSES AND THEIR PROPERTY, REST FOR THEIR RIDE ON THE BUS AND FEEL COM-
FORTABLE SHARING AND PROTECTING THEIR LIFE WITH FELLOW COMMUNITY MEM-
BERS, BLACK AND WHITE. FROM THIS YOUNG CHILD, A BRILLIANT INTELLECT, COURA-
GEOUS AND STRONG, WE HAVE THE CIVILITY OF MODERN SOCIETY. AND I HAVE COME
HERE TO WASHINGTON, AGAIN AND AGAIN AS THE PRESIDENT, TO MAKE THE RECORDS
ACCURATELY KNOWN.
IN 1972 PRESIDENT ANN KNIGHT BECAME THE DALAI LAMA, AND SEQUESTERED HER
SPIRITUAL GUARDSMANSHIP IN TIBET, WHERE SHE WOULD LIVE AS AN ETHEREAL AND
MAINTAIN THE GODLY SPIRIT WITH WHICH SHE HAD BEEN BORN. HER SPRITUA L ELE-
VATION WAS ACKNOWLEDGED AS “GOD HERSELF” AND WAS AUTHENTICATED IN
MANY RELIGIONS FOR HER MANY ACTS ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, AND
THOSE ANTICIPATED IN THE FUTURE OF HER LIFE.
BORN IN I CORINTHIANS I:12 “I AM ANOT EVEIL, I AM NOT EVIL, I AM NOT EVIL….i AM
LOVE, I AM LOVE, I AM LOVE…..” THIS YOUNG LADY WAS RECOGNIZED THROUGHOUT
THE WORLD FOR HER OPTIMISM, HER BEAUTY, THE POWER SHE HAD TO WALK BEYOND
OBSTACLES AND TROUBLES TO OVERCOME…..TRULY FOR HUMANITY, FOR AMERICANS,
AND FOR THE WORLD.
KIMBERLY ANN KNIGHT REMAINED IN THE WHITE HOUSE, AND SHE AND ANN COMMU-
NICATED REGULARLY TO MAINTAIN THE PRESIDENCY, THE COUNTRY, AND TO SOLVE
MATTERS RELATING TO WOMEN’S RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS, FOOD PRODUCTION, AND
BUDGETARY CONCERNS.
TODAY, WE ARE GLAD TO SEE THAT OUR EFFORTS AS DEVELOPERS AND INVENTORS,
FOUNDERS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CAPITOL, HAVE
BEEN HONORED AND RECOGNIZED IN THE FOUNDERS HALL AND THE HALL OF PRESI-
DENTS.
AMERICANS DID CERTAINLY HAVE REAL BENEFIT, IN REAL TIME, OF BOTH THE PRESIDENCY AND
THE LIFE’S WORK OF ANN KNIGHT AND KIMBERLY ANN KNIGHT, INCLUDING THEIR MOMENTOUS
ACTS ENACTMENTS OF CIVIL RIGHTS, EQUAL RIGHTS, VOTING RIGHTS AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS.
WHEN YOUNG PRESIDENT KNIGHT STOOD IN THE UNITED NATIONS DURING THE ENACTMENT OF
WOMEN’S RIGHTS, LITERALLY PREVENTING WOMEN FROM BEING HELD AS CHATTEL, THE UNITED
NATIONS REPRESENTATIVES ADAPTED THE ENACTMENT “BECAUSE OF GOD” FREEING WOMEN IN
156 COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD. IT WAS “THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD” ON THE FRONT
PAGE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES. IT WAS THE MEANING OF A BRAND NEW DAY.
AS WHEN CIVIL RIGHTS WERE ENACTED, THE PEOPLE LEPT INTO THE AIR, THEY SANG OUT, AND
DANCED, AND THE PEOPLE OF WASHINGTON ARRIVED TO SAY THEY WOULD LAY THEIR BURDENS
DOWN….THEY WERENT GOING TO CRY NO MORE, WERENT GOING TO PAIN NO MORE, WERENET
GOING TO SUFFER NO MORE…..PEOPLE WERE INDEED FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST...AND THANKED
GOD ALMIGHTY FOR THE DOCUMENT THAT GAVE THEM THE FREEDOM TO LIVE. THE SIGNED COPY
OF THE CIVL RIGHTS ACT CAME TO INCLUDE THE SIGNATURES OF DOZENS OF WASHINGTONIANS EX-
PLAINING THEIR ASSENT…..THEIR AGREEMENT AS A COMMUNITY MEMBER, A REPRESENTATIVE, A
PERSON, A FRIEND, TO SEEK LOVE, TO SEEK PEACE, FRIENDSHIP, ALLIANCES, THE WEALTH OF STABIL-
ITY THE HAPPINESS OF BROTHERHOOD. THE WROTE, I WILL WALK SIDE BY SIDE, …..I WONT HATE NO
MORE……..I WOULD RATHER LOVE…….I REACH OUT MY HAND, AND SAY THANK YOU, DR. KNIGHT.

THE PEOPLE SIGNED THIS DOCUMENT TO SAY THAT THEIR STRENGTH, MADE RESOUNDINGLY CLEAR
AND POWERFUL AS THEY MARCHED WITH DR. KING , WOULD NOW CARRY ON, REMEMBERING
HIM, REMEBERING THEIR EFFORTS, REMEMBERING ALL THOSE LOST…….AS OUR YOUNG PRESIDENT
BRAVELY FORGED A BRIGHT NEW FUTURE.

I SAY THIS FOR HISTORY, FOR ACCURACY, FOR THE RIGHTNESS OF THE SPIRIT OF THE COUNTRY, FOR
THE GREAT, GREAT, GREAT BEAUTY AND GRACE IT HAS ADDED TO ALL OUR LIVES. FOR THE GREAT
FREEDOM IT HAS GIVEN US AS PEOPLE.

PRESIDENT KNIGHT‘S MANY ENACTMENTS SHALL BE HONORED IN THE KNIGHT PRESIDENTIAL MUSE-
UM ARCHIVES, AND IN THE MANY ORDERS OF THE PRESIDENTS ESTABLISHED AROUND THE COUN-
TRY, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RULES OF THE PRESIDENCY AND THE BYLAWS OF THIS NATION.
SO DO LOOK FOR US, FEEL FREE TO CONTACT THE KNIGHT ARCHIVES, AND VISIT PRESI-
DENTKNIGHT.WEEBLY.COM, AND GREATAMERICANPRESIDENTS.WEEBLY.COM, AND LOOK FOR US
ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND PINTEREST, WHERE WE ARCHIVE THE KNIGHT WHITE HOUSE.
WE WELCOME YOUR SUPPORT, YOUR COMMENTS, YOUR CONCERNS. WE ARE KEEPING AMERICA!
DR. MARIE KIMBERLEY ANN KNIGHT MD, September 28, 2021, New York