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!
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,
and 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 at last!
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