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ranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro munity must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have e to realize that their destiny is tied up with our have e to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our cannot walk we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march cannot turn are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro39。路德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 slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and 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 have a dream 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 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 have a dream 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 is our is the faith that I go back to the South this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of 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 will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new country, ’ tis of thee,Sweet land of liberty,Of thee I sing:Land where my fathers died,Land of the pilgrims’ pride,F(xiàn)rom every freedom if America is to be a great nation this must bee let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New 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 slopes of California!But not only that。s return to the National this place, he will stand for all time, among monuments to those who fathered this nation and those who defended it。ve been taken from us these past few monument attests to their strength and their courage, and while we miss them dearly, we know they rest in a better finally, there are the multitudes of men and women whose names never appear in the history books –those who marched and those who sang, those who sat in and those who stood firm, those who organized and those who mobilized –all those men and women who through countless acts of quiet heroism helped bring about changes few thought were even possible.“By the thousands,” said , “faceless, anonymous, relentless young people, black and white…h(huán)ave taken our whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in the formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.” To those men andwomen, to those foot soldiers for justice, know that this monument is yours, as half a century has passed since that historic March on Washington, a day when thousands upon thousands gathered for jobs and for is what our schoolchildren remember best when they think of – hisbooming voice across this Mall, calling on America to make freedom a reality for all of God39。s “I Have a Dream” speech –for without that shining moment, without 39。s moral imagination, barricades began to fall and bigotry began to doors of opportunity swung open for an entire , laws changed, but hearts and minds changed, as at the faces here around you, and you see an America that is more fair and more free and more just than the one addressed that are right to savor that slow but certain progress– progress that39。s dream and his vision of yet it is also important on this day to remind ourselves that such progress did not e easily。s faith was hardwon。s marvelous oratory, but it is worthremembering that progress did not e from words was was purchased through enduring the smack of billy clubs and the blast of fire was bought with days in jail cells and nights of bomb every victory during the height of the civil rights movement, there were setbacks and there were forget now, but during his life, wasn39。by those who felt he shouldn39。s work, is not yet gather here at a moment of great challenge and great the first decade of this new century, we have been tested by war and by trag