I Have A Dream

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of yru have eft you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by rhe winth of police brutality. You have been the veteransfaith that e sufned suffering is redemrk with the faith that unearned suffering is redem, goe.

k to So to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to So to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos oituation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of dl pair.

ng say tt ys not wy, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment I still have a dream. ItI have a dream that one day thhe American dream.e I have live out the true meanievident; 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 for at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream tt t one sweltering with the h Mississippi, a desert state sweltering witansformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my foof freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my foof freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my foof freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my foof freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my foof freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one dby the colour ation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of theim tharacne d

I he state of Alabwit, who words of interposition and nuly dripping with the words of interposition and nuly dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls anll bite le 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 bew,xaltedough pl ces will be made plains, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glo 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 able trnhew oue of the mountain of despai 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 to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. This will be the day when all of us will be able to sing with new meaning. My country, 'tis of thee,

Sweet land of liberty,

Of thee I sing:

Land where my fvthers dntai

Lade

Let freedom ring.

(Note: It's a song in praise of one's country. My count: It's a song in praise of one's country. My country is a sweet land of liberty. I sing for this land where my fathers died. It is a lanfrom thery side of it.)

And if America is to be a great nation this must

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 freet m rinom rin tfrom the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let fre heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring frly the c let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout ountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and Mole freedom ring.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamln 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 us, black men and whe e men of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Frerds of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God, we are free at last!" N te:

1.ountain of Georgia, Mountain of Tennessee and Moof those f Mississippi are the names of mountains of those f Mississippi are the names of mountains of those states. 2. Negro spiritual is a religious song of a type originally sung by the Negro slaves in America. Words are as above.

2. Negro spiritual is a religious song of a type originally sung by the Negro slaves in America. Words are as above.