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......

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