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 cream
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 the sons of former
slaves and the sons of former slave on will 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 o injustice sweltering with the heat of oppression will be
transformed into an oasis of freedom and just as I have a dream live 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
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 write that in Alabama little black boys and black
girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as
sisters and brother i have a dream
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 bar of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh
shall see it together
this is our hope this is a paint but I go back to the salt with with this faith
we will be able to you out of the mountain of despair a stone of who
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 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 six
land where my fathers died land of the pilgrims pride from every mountainside
let freedom ring of America's to be a great nation this must become true and
so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New him John
let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York let freedom reign
from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania that freedom ring from the
snow-capped Rockies of Colorado
let freedom ring from the Cretaceous 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 wind it 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 we are free
yeah