Name: Martin Luther King | "I Have A Dream" Speech
Uploaded: 2018-08-10T08:03:40.000Z
Duration: 17 min 28 s
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At this time I have the honor to present to you

Have the pleasure to present to you, Dr.. Martin Luther King I

greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation

Great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed

This momentous Decree came as a [great] beacon light of hope to millions of negro slaves

who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.

the negro lives on a lonely island of Poverty

in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity

the negro is still languished in the corners of American Society and

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check

When the architects of our republic wrote

the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence

This note was a promise that all men. Yes,

Would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life Liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens

Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America

A check which has come back marked insufficient funds

But we refuse to believe that the bank of Justice is bankrupt

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation

So we've come to cash this check a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security

to remind America of the Fierce urgency of now

Engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy

To rise from the Dark and Desolate Valley of segregation to the sunlit path of Racial justice

To lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid Rock of Brotherhood now is the time

To make justice a reality for all of God's children

This sweltering summer of the negro's legitimate discontent

Until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality

those who hope that the negro needed to blow off steam and

Will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual

there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until

the negro is granted his citizenship rights.

the whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until

But there is something that I must say to my people who

stand on the Warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice

in the process of gaining our rightful place

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom

By drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline

to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again

We must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul Force

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 come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny

They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom

We must make the pledge that we shall always March ahead

There are those who asking the devotees of civil rights

We can never be satisfied as long as the negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of Police brutality

As long as our body is heavy with the fatigue of travel

Cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the Hotels of the cities

Satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one

We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their

dignity by signs stating "For Whites Only"

We cannot be satisfied as long as a negro in