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"I HAVE A DREAM ..."
Speooh by the Rev. MARTIN LuTHER KING
At the "March on vYashington"
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down
in history as the greates•t demonstration for freedom in
the history of our nation.
Five ~core years ago a great American in whose symholic shado·w we stand today signed the Emancipation
Proclamation. This momen:tous cleeree is a great beacon
light of hope to millions of ♥♥♥♥♥ slave·s who had been
~e.arrd in the flames o[ withering injushcc. It came as a
joyous daybre,ak to end the long night of their captivity.
But 100 years late<r the ♥♥♥♥♥ still is no•t fre·e. One hundred years later the 1i.fe of the ♥♥♥♥♥ is still badly
erippled by the manacles of s-t•grPg-ation and the chains of
discriminatio11. One hnndred years later the Ne,gro live·s
on a lone,Jy i:"]and of poverty in the mids1t of a va1S1t ooean
of matE>.rial prospc·rity. Out> hundred years later the
egro is still larugui~hed iu the comer~s o.f Ame·rican
~oci. ety and find;:; himself in exile in his own land. So
wo '''<' come hf'rP torlay to r1r.amatize a s,hameful condition.
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash
a eheck. Whrn the a. reb it ects of our Re:publie wrote the
magnificent. wonls of the Constitution a.nd the Declaration
o1 Independence, they we·re signing· a promiss'Cl<ry note to
which eve·ry American wa:" to fall heir. 'I'his no,te was a
promise that all nwn-yc::;, bla,ek men as we11 as white
rmm-wonld he g1mnmtPt'd the unalienable rights of life,
liherty a]l(l the pnrsni1 of ha.ppine'Ss. It is obvious today
tha.t Amcri(·a lms <lcfaulted on this promissory note insofar as hP>r citi7.ens of co.Jo,r arr concP:rned. Instead of
honoring ih1s sacn'd ohli,gation, America ha.s given the
Nngro p0ople a bad check, a check which has come back
marked ''insufficient fn nds.''
But we refus.e to helieve that the bank of justice is
bankrupt. We rp.fnse to belie\·~~ t.ha.t there are insufficient
fuwls in the grea.t vaults of opportunity orf this nation.
So we've come to cash this check, a check that will give
ns upon oemand the rirhes of freedom and the s·ecurity of
justice.
\Ve haYe a.bo come to this hallowed spot to remind
Ame.rica of the fipJ·ce urgency of now. 'l'hi:-; is no time to
l'llgagc in the luxury of cooling off or to t.ake the tranquilizing dmg of graduali::;m. Now is the time to make
real the promi~r·s of democracy. Now is the time to rise
from the dark nnll clrsolate valley of segregation to the
,.unlit path of racial justi<·P. Now is the time to li.ft our
uation from the quicksands of raeial injustice to the solid
r()ek of brotherhood.
Xow is t.he time to mak0 justice a reality for all of
God's children. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This swelt.ering summer
of the i\eg:ro's legitimate disconte.nt. will not pass until
there is .an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality
-1963 is not an (md but a beginning. Tho>se who hope
that tl1e X egro needed to hlow off steam and will now be
l'Olltent will ha\·e a ruoP awakening if the na:tion return1'1
to bu,;ine~;.; as usua.I.
'l'here will be 11eitht'T rest nor tranquility in Ame.rica
until the ♥♥♥♥♥ i~ granted his citizenship rights. The
whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of onr nation until the bright days of justice emerge.
And that is something that I mus.t say to my pBople who
~tand o.n the worn threshold whieh leads into the palace
of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place
we must not he guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not
"eek to sati:sfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from
the cup of biMe·n:le·s,s a.nd hatred.
\Ve must forever conduct our s.truggle on the high plane
of dignity and diseiplin e. \Ye must not allow our creative protests to degen e·rate into physical violence. Again
and again we must ri se to the maje,stic heights of meding
physical fo.rce wi.th soul for-ce.