so even though we face the difficulties
of today and 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 and live
out the true meaning of its Creed we
hold these truths to be self-evident
that all men are created
I have a dream that one day on the Red
Hills of Georgia sons of former slaves
and the sons of former slave owners will
be 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
my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will not be
judged by the color of our 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 to
be
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
and this is a Pete that I go back to the
south with with this faith we 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 thing 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 with all of God's children
we'll 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 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 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 Negro spiritual
free at last free at last thank God
Almighty real Fred
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