Short excerpts from the beautiful 'I Have a Dream' Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. For full text: Click here
I have a
that one day this
will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these
to be self-evident: that all men are created
."
...I have a dream that
day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former
and the sons of
slaveowners will be able to sit down
at a table of
.
...I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a
where they will
be judged by the
of their skin but by the
of their character.
When we let
ring...we will speed up that day when all of God's children...will be able to
hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "
at last! Free at last! Thank God
, we are free at
!"