THE GREATEST SPEECH EVER PRODUCE...
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down
in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our
nation. Five score years ago, a great
American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the emancipation
proclamation. This momentous decree came
as a great beacon of hope to millions of Negroes slave who had been
seared in the flames of withering injustice.
It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their
captivity. But one hundred years later,
the Negro still is not free.
One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is
still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of
discrimination. One hundred years later,
the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up
and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to the
self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of
former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down
together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even 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 that my four little children will one
day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin
but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its
vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the 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 as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be
exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will
be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; “and the glory of
the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.” This is our hope, and this is the faith that
I go back to the South with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the
mountain of despair and a stone of hope.
With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of
our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work
together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to
stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. And this is the day we all look up to – to be
able to sing with new meaning my country true liberty; sweet land of liberty beyond
will be our thing. Land where my father’s die and the that’s the pilgrims
pride, from every mountain side, let freedom ring if America is to be a great
nation, this must become true so let freedom ring. And so let freedom ring from the prodigious
hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom
ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies
of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the
curvaceous 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 mountain side, let freedom ring.
When we allow freedom ring, when we made 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 of 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
the old Negro spiritual: free at last!, free at last!, thank God almighty we
are free at last.
Dr. MARTIN LUTHER KING JNR.
INCREDIBLE PRINCE
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