Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I Have a Dream"
delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.
C.
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....
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I Have a Dream"
delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.
C.
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.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation
Proclamation.
This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who
had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.
It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of
their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.
One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still
sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
One hundred years later, the
Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.
One hundred
years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners
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