Wednesday, August 28, 2002

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I have a Dream...

Today I say to you, my friends, despite the difficulties of today and tomorrow I have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise and the true meaning of its creed live by: "We hold these truths self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day can sit on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners 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 and oppression, transformed into an oasis and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they are not after their skin color, but judged by their character. I have a dream today. . .
I have a dream that one day in Alabama with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips the words of interposition "and" cancellation of racial integration "drip. . . That shake one day right there in Alabama little black boys and girls hands with little white boys and white girls as brothers and sisters. I have a dream that one day every valley, every hill and mountain is lowered. The rough places will be smoothed and the rough places will be made straight. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it.
This is our hope. With this faith that I go back to the South.
With this faith, I will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair 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 along to jail to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. This will be the day when all God's children can give the song a new meaning "My country from you, you sing land of freedom I do. was land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring. "America should be a great nation this must become.
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.
resound Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado.
resound 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 antenna lake.
Let the freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.
When we let freedom ring - when we 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 and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics - 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!"

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