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DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MEMORIAL CEREMONY I HAVE A DREAM ... I say to you today my friends, so even though we face difficulties of today and tomorrow. I still have a dream. It is dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day, this nation will rise up and live out the true mearung of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal. I have a dream that one day, on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even in the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream of my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of the character. 1 have a dream today. -; i. ' . - I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with words of interposition and nullification, one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. ., , Vi Hbi ftL ; | 1 have a dream today. • ' 1 have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places shall be made plains, and the crooked places will be made straig ht, and glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South wdth. With this faith we will be able to hew out the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we vdll be able to work together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. And this will be the day. This will be the day when all of God ' s children will be able to sing the new meaning My country ' tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pUgrim ' s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring. And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the might mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvacious slopes of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom to ring, when let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all God ' s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual. Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last. i L- • ' . - Luthv. King Jr. Memorial 14 Ja.. 71994 August 28, 1963 Washington D.C. i Excerpt from the speech given at the March on Washington .- A
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I CAN SEE FROM THE MOUNTAIN As I look down below, after many a long year, I still see the problem, of color and the fear. People have tried, in many a way. To put fears behind them, far far away. Many have failed, and it cost them quite dearly. Others didn ' t want it, and made it seen clearly. We didn ' t give up, and marched through the land. To be beat by the police, and knights of the klan. Through misunderstanding, ignorance and pain. They all have excuses, someone else is to blame. It comes from them all, no one kind is spared. If your skin tone is different, you can ' t be compared. These feelings are changing, with the growth of compassion. With the new ways of living, this hatred is old fashion. With the lessons I preached, that has been long catching on. These words came from the heart, they weren ' t meant as a con. Although 1 am gone, I sit with the master, I think of peaceful walks, then turn to disaster. To bring to the world, the real Eternal light. To treat the world with humanity, it ' s everyone ' s God given right. For those few followers, who are not yet on the team. Be kind to your fellow man, it ' s harder to be mean. To the many true believers, who helped to set up this great scene. From here on the mountain top, I believe I still see My Dream The Troll 131
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