[nukkad] “I Have A Dream...”

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Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights. -Henry David Thoreau, 
naturalist and author (1817-1862)
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“I Have A Dream...” 
      Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
      Quotes  Books

      
                  
 An excerpt from Dr. King's famous speech
delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
in Washington DC on August 28, 1963.

                                                      
                   
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite 
of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment,
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 the sons of former slaves and the sons of
former slave owners will be able to sit down together
at a table of brotherhood.

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

I have a dream that my four 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 the state of Alabama,
whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the
words of interposition and nullification, will be
transformed into a situation where little black boys
and black girls will be able to join hands with little
white boys and white girls and walk together as
sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be
exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low,
the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked
places will be made straight, and the glory of the
Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it
together.

This is our hope. This is the faith with which I
return to the South. With this faith we will be able
to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
With this faith we will be able to transform the
jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful
symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be
able to work together, to pray together, to struggle
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 when all of God's children will
be able to sing with a 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 the curvaceous peaks 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 every molehill of
Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom
ring.

When we let freedom 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 the old Negro
spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God
Almighty, we are free at last!"



 



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