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I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the

greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil

rights, «When will you be satisfied?"We can never be satisfied as long as the

Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.

We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the

cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our

children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs

stating «For Whites Only». We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for

which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until

justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

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 you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you

battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police

brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work

with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back 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 of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 God’s children will be able to sing with a new

meaning, «My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I

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