I Have a Dream Speech
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So even though we face the difficulties of today and of tomorrow,
I still have a dream.
It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning 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,
the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners,
will they 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 color 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 black boys and little 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 me made plain and the crooked places would be made straight,
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed
and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope
This is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith
We will be able to hue 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 to jail together
to stand up for freedom together
knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day
this will be the day when all of God's children
will be able to sing with new meaning
my country, 'tis of thee
sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing
land where my fathers died
land of the pilgrims' 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 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 mountainside
let freedom ring, and when this happens
when we allow 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 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 Negroe spiritual
free at last, free at last
thank God Almighty, we are free at last