What Once Was Will Be Again Kjv
Thousand artin 50 uther Thou ing , J r .
I Accept a Dream
delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
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I am happy to join with you today in what will become down in history as the greatest sit-in for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years agone, a bang-up American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand up today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon lite of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came equally a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But 1 hundred years after, the Negro still is not complimentary. One hundred years after, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled past the manacles of segregation and the chains of bigotry. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a solitary isle of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American club and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital letter to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory notation to which every American was to autumn heir. This note was a hope that all men, yes, blackness men besides equally white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Information technology is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar every bit her citizens of colour are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad cheque, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."
But we refuse to believe that the banking company of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that at that place are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And then, we've come to greenbacks this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of liberty and the security of justice.
Nosotros accept likewise come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no fourth dimension to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. At present is the time to brand existent the promises of democracy. At present is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of alliance. Now is the time to brand justice a reality for all of God's children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will non pass until at that place is an invigorating fall of liberty and equality. Nineteen 60-three is non an end, but a showtime. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and volition now be content volition have a rude awakening if the nation returns to concern as usual. And there volition be neither rest nor serenity in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will proceed to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright solar day of justice emerges.
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, nosotros must non be guilty of wrongful deeds. 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 airplane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Once more and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of coming together physical force with soul force.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro customs must non atomic number 82 u.s. to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, every bit evidenced by their presence here today, have come up to realize that their destiny is tied upwards with our destiny. And they accept come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our liberty.
We cannot walk lonely.
And as nosotros walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
We cannot turn dorsum.
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When volition you exist satisfied?" Nosotros tin can never be satisfied as long every bit the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of constabulary brutality. Nosotros can never exist satisfied as long every bit our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot proceeds lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. ** We cannot exist satisfied as long as the negro'south basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We tin never exist satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their nobility by signs stating: "For Whites Only." ** We cannot be satisfied every bit long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we volition not be satisfied until "justice rolls downwards similar waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream." i
I am not unmindful that some of you have come hither out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you lot take come up fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of y'all have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left y'all battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of law brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the religion that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this state of affairs can and volition be changed.
Allow us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to y'all today, my friends.
And then even though nosotros confront the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I accept a dream that one solar day this nation volition rise upward and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of erstwhile slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down downwardly together at the table of alliance.
I have a dream that ane day even the land of Mississippi, a land sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an haven of liberty and justice.
I have a dream that my 4 little children volition one 24-hour interval live in a nation where they will not exist judged by the color of their skin just past the content of their graphic symbol.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one twenty-four hours, d o wn 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 volition be able to bring together hands with little white boys and white girls every bit sisters and brothers.
I accept a dream today!
I have a dream that i day every valley shall be exalted, and every colina and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places volition be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall exist revealed and all flesh shall run across it together." ii
This is our hope, and this is the organized religion 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 promise. With this organized religion, we will exist able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will exist able to piece of work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be gratis 1 twenty-four hours.
And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God'southward children will be able to sing with new significant:
My country 'tis of thee, sweet state of freedom, of thee I sing. State where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to exist a not bad nation, this must become true.
And and then let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom band from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snowfall-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Permit liberty ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
Simply not only that:
Allow freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let liberty ring from Lookout Mount of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every loma and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let liberty band.
And when this happens, and when we let freedom ring, when we let information technology band from every hamlet and every village, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that mean solar day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to bring together hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Complimentary at last! Complimentary at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! 3
** = Source sound edited to exclude the content in double ruby-red asterisks in the above transcript.
1 Amos 5:24 (rendered precisely in The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible)
2 Isaiah 40:4-v (Rex James Version of the Holy Bible). Quotation marks are excluded from role of this moment in the text because Rex's rendering of Isaiah 40:4 does not precisely follow the KJV version from which he quotes (e.yard., "hill" and "mountain" are reversed in the KJV). King's rendering of Isaiah 40:v, however, is precisely quoted from the KJV.
iii At: http://world wide web.negrospirituals.com/news-vocal/free_at_last_from.htm
Also in this database: Martin Luther Male monarch, Jr: A Time to Suspension Silence
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