M.L. KING'S "I HAVE A DREAM" SPEECH - AUG. 28,

1963 I am happy to join with you today in what will go

down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in

the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great

American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today,

signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous

decree came as a great beacon of hope to millions of slaves,

who had been seared in the flames of whithering injustice. It

came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their

captivity. But one hundered years later, the colored America

is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the

colored American is still sadly crippled by the manacle of

segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred

years later, the colored American lives on a lonely island of

poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.

One hundred years later, the colored American is still

languishing in the corners of American society and finds......

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