Monday was MLK Day in the United States, a wonderful opportunity for people around the world to remember Dr. King and what he stood and fought for. The “I Have a Dream Speech,” delivered at the “March on Washington” in 1963, is one of the most important speeches ever made, and just one of the many incredible achievements of Dr. King. Here is a video of that speech.
A few highlights of the speech by Martin Luther King Jr:
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, 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 brother- hood.”
“I have a dream that my four little children will one dayĀ live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colorĀ of their skin but by the content of their character. I have aĀ dream.”
“I have a dream that…Ā one day right there in Alabama little black boys and blackĀ girls will be able to join hands with little white boys andĀ white girls as sisters and brothers.”
“In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
“When we allow freedom to ring ā when we let it ringĀ from every city and every hamlet, from every state andĀ every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews andĀ Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to joinĀ hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual,Ā “Free at last, Free at last, Great God almighty, We areĀ free at last.”
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