I Have a Dream,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Address delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest .......................for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five ....................years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation............................... This momentous decree came as a great ..................... light of hope to millions of Negro slaves, who had been seared in the flames of withering.................................. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their...............................

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly ................................by the manacles of .....................and the chains of

.................................. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material.................................. One hundred years later , the Negro is still languished in the ........................of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a ....................condition.

In a sense we’ve come to our nation's capital to ..................a check. When the architects of our .................wrote the magnificent words of the ..................and the Declaration of.................., they were signing a ..................note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a .................. that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be .......................... to the “Unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note ................as her citizens of color are............................

Instead of honoring this ....................obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "....................... funds.

But we ......................to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great .......................of ....................of this nation. And so we’ve come to cash this check , a check that will give us upon .................the riches of freedom and the ................. of justice. We have also come to his .................spot to remind America of the ..................urgency of now. This is no time to ....................in the luxury of cooling off or to take the .......................drug of gradualism.

Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy.  Now is the time to rise from the dark and ..................... valley of segregation to the sunlit path of .................. justice. Now is the time  to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a ..................... for all of God’s children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the ...............of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's ...............discontent will not pass until there is an ...........................  autumn of freedom and                       . Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off ................. and will now be content will have a rude ..................... if the nation returns to business as usual.  There will be neither rest nor ....................  in America until the Negro is .................. his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of ............. will continue to shake the ..............of our nation until the bright day of justice ........................

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm................., which ........................  into the palace of justice: In the process of .................... our rightful place, we must not be guilty of ....................... deeds. Let us not seek to ......................  our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and.......................... .  We must forever .................. our struggle on the highest plain of ...............  and.......................... . We must not allow our creative ................. to ......................into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the .................... heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The .............. new.................., which has ....................the Negro community,must not lead us to a ...........................  of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as ................. by their presence here today, have come to ................. that their destiny  is ..............  up with our destiny.  And they have come to realize their freedom is ....................  bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make a ..................  that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

There are those who ask in the ....................  of civil rights, when will you be satisfied? We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the very victim of the ......................  horrors of police ........................  .

We can never be satisfied  as long as our bodies, heavy with the ....................  of travel,

cannot gain ................. in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. 

We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic ....................  is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are ..................  of their ..................... and robbed of their dignity by signs ...............  "for white only."

We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro in Mississippi cannot ................ and the Negro in New  York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied and

we will not be satisfied until “justice rolls down like waters and ........................ like a mighty

stream.”

I am not ......................  that some of you have come here out of great .................  and...........................  .  Some of you have come fresh from ................  jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your .....................  for freedom left you .....................  by the storms of....................    and ................................  by the winds of police ......................  . You have been the ..........................  of creative..................  . Continue to work with the .....................   that unearned ..................  is..................  . Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this .....................  can and will be changed.  Let us not ........................  in the valley of ......................

I say to you today, my friends , so even though we face the .....................  of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.  It is a dream deeply .....................  in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day  this nation will rise up and live out the true ..........................  of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self- ..................   that all men are created .................  .”  I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of .............   slaves and the sons of  former slave ....................  will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state ......................  with the heat of  injustice , sweltering with the heat of ...........................  , will be .......................  into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream  that my four little children will one day live in a nation where

they will not be ....................  by the color of their skin but by the .................  of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its ................  racists, with its governor having his lips ..................  with the words of “interposition” and “................” , one day right 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. I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day “every valley shall be ......................  , every hill and mountain shall be made low; the ..............  places will be made ....................  and the .......................  places will be made ......................    and the glory of the Lord shall be.....................   and all flesh shall see it together.”

This is our hope. This is the ...............  that I go back to the South with.  With this faith we will be able to ....................  out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.  With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling ..............  s of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

 With this faith  we will be able to work together, to pray together, to .............  together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.  This will be the 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 father's died, land of the pilgrim's ..................,

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring  from the ..................   hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the ...........................   Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the ...........................   slopes of California.

But not only that: Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.  

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens , when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every ................. , from every state and every city , we will be able to ................  up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and ................ , Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old :

Free at last!  Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last. 








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