(16:56:04) Pt 2. "I have a Dream"

Speaker [00:00:00] Battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality, you have been the veterans of creative suffering continue, continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to the 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 situation, and will be, will be changed.

Speaker [00:00:29] Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

Speaker [00:00:34] I say to you today, my friends, though, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

Speaker [00:00:44] It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, 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, sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood and sisterhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice. But let's not forget, New Jersey have a deep history of racism and love once and maybe still is the headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan. Slaughtering, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into a wasis of freedom and justice. I 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 character. Why is that still a statement that we still have to remind ourselves? So almost 60 years later, I have a dream that I have one day in Alabama with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification. But today we have a president whose lives are dripping with the vicious hordes of decisive actions. All of it. But one day that black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with more white boys, little white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted and 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 cells see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the south with. This is the faith we will be able to. How out of the hollow of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With 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 day. This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning.

Speaker [00:02:58] My country tis of thee, sweet land, of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land where of the pilgrim's pride from every mountainside, let freedom ring.

Speaker [00:03:10] And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening tops of Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of California. Let freedom ring from the cabin slopes. Let freedom ring. But not only that, let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from the Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and mole top of Mississippi. Let Freedom ring from the mountainside. Let freedom ring.

Speaker [00:03:45] And when all. halo, freedom ring. And we'll let it ring from every city and every hamlet.

Speaker [00:03:50] From every state and every speed update. And we all of God's children, black men, white and white, Jew and Gentile, Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of old Negro spiritual. Free at last. Free at last. Great God Almighty. We are Free at last.