I was thinking today about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and trying so hard to remember some things about him other than the fact that he had a dream. What was his dream, I thought? I knew it was for equality, but I just couldn't remember much about what Dr. King had to say beyond "I have a dream". So here are a few excerpts from his speech that day at the Washington Monument in Washington D.C.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
I have a dream that my four little 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, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there 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 exalted, and 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."²
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
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.
Here is a link you can go to to watch or read his famous "I have a dream" speech.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
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