I HAVE A DREAM

     [Below are parts of the famous speech Dr. Martin Luther King
gave on August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington,
D.C.]

     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, 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 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 little black boys
and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys
and white girls as sisters and brothers....

     This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the
South with.... With this faith we will be able to work together, to
pray together, to struggle 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 new meaning, 'My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of
liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the
pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.' And if
America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

     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 snowcapped Rockies of Colorado . . .

     Let freedom ring from every hill and mole hill of Mississippi.
'From every mountainside, let freedom ring.'

     And when this happens, and when we allow freedom to 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 that old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God almighty, we are free at last!'