| Show I have a dream Martin Luther King Washington s r DC D.C. Speech ii T I say to you today my friends 1 that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of th the moment 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 and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold s to be self-evident self that allmen all allmen allmen men are created equal I I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood I have a dream that the state of Mississippi a desert state sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression oppression oppression sion 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 the state of Alabama whose governors governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification willbe will willbe willbe be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be beable beable beable able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers I have a dream today I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted 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 This is the faith with which I L return to the South With this faith we will be able to hue out of the mountain of despair a astone astone astone stone of hope With this faith we willbe will willbe willbe be able to transform the jangling discords discords discords dis dis- dis- dis cords 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 a k M 4 t a L I Y k r rY r Y 4 r o i r n nV r V i 4 ft T 1 I. I F st I i f fr J t r i. i c K s. s s H sL s t y L r b r W 4 f S S Photo by Vernon Vemon Merritt March 1965 A triumphant Martin Luther King jr rests at the end of the march in Montgomery Alabama stand up for freedom together knowing knowing knowing know know- ing that we will be free one day This will be the day when all of Gods God's children will be able to sing with new meaning My country Us of thee Sweet land of liberty Of thee I Ising Ising Ising sing Land where my fathers died Land of the pilgrims' pilgrims pride From every mountainside Let freedom ring II 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 Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York Let freedom ring Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania Let freedom ring from the snowcapped snowcapped snowcapped snow snow- capped of Colorado Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California But not only that let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of G Georgia orgia Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee Let 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 of Gods God's children black men and white men Jews and Gentiles Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in inthe inthe inthe the words of the old Negro spiritual Free at last free at last thank God almighty we ar r e at last From I Have a a Dr Dream Dream am amI I b by Martin Luther King Jr Ir Copyright 1963 by Martin Martin Martin Mar Mar- tin Luther King Jr Ir Delivered A August 28 1963 |
