Martin Ludder Gold: I have a dream
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I Have a DREAM
Martin Luther King, JR,
Delivered on The Steps At The Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.c. August 28, 1963.
I am happy to join with you today...................
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 light of hope to millions of Negro slaves, who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains Of discrimination.
One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island 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 society and finds himself an exile in his own land . So Weame Come Here Today to Dramatize a Shameful Condition.
In a sense we have 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, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This Note Was a Promise That All Men, Yes, Black Men As Well AS White Men, Would Be Guaranteed The INALenable Rights of Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, 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 have come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the Riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to 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 . Now 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 brotherhood. Now is the time to make 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 not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end but a beginning. Those Who Hope That The Negro Needed to Blow Off Steam and Will Now BE Content Will Have A Rude Awakeningiff10...
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 the bright 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 we must not 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 ever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community 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 .............................
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We can not turn back. There 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 brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, can not gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We can not be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi can not vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of Persecutions and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith 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 situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the Difficulties of Today and Tomorrow. I Still Have a Dream. It is a dream depyle rooted in The American Dream.
I Have a Dream That Day THISTION NATION WILL RISE UP 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,
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I Have a DREAM,
That One Day Even the State of Mississippi, A State Sweltering with The Heat of Injustice, Will Be Transformed Into An Oasis of Freedom and Justice.
I Have a DREAM,
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I Have a Dream Today!
I 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 Girl White Boys and 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 Shall see it it to together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I will go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out 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, this Will Be The Day When All of God's Children Will Be Able To Sing with New Meaning "My Country 'Tis of Thee, Sweet Land WhereTy, of Thee I start, Land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring! "and if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.and 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 Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let Freedom Ring from The Snow-Capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let Freedom Ring from The Curvaceous Slopes of California.
But not Only That.
Let Freedom Ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let Freedom Ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let Freedom Ring from Every Hill and Molehill of Mississippi, From Every Mountainside,
let freedom ring! And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last. "Martin Ludder Gold August 28, 1963, the Washington DC Lincoln Memorial Today, I am pleased to join everyone, and participate in the greatest demonstration gathering in China to fight for freedom. 100 years ago, a great American - Today we stood in his symbolic figure - signed the "Declaration of Liberation". The promulgation of this important law is like a black slave that is baked in an unscrupulous flame. However, after 100 years, black people still have no freedom. 100 years later, black people are still tragically lying on the shackles of ethnic isolation and racial discrimination. After 100 years, black people still live on poor landscapes in Material boom. After 100 years, black people still cry in the middle of the American society, still feeling that they are discovered in the countryside. So, we came here today, and to publicize this happiness. In a sense, the capital we came to the country was to honor a check. When the founder of our Republic was in questioning the brilliant chapter of the Constitution and the Independent Declaration, it signed a ticket that per inheritance of each Americans. This period is promised to everyone - regardless of the white or black - enjoy the right to survive, freedom, and pursuit of happiness. However, today the United States obviously arrears this period of non-colored citizens. The United States did not accept this sacred debt, but began to give a black check - a note that covered with the "insufficient funds" was returned. However, we will never believe that the bank will bankrupt. We don't believe that this country's huge opportunity treasure bank will be insufficient. Therefore, we will honor this check. This check will give us valuable freedom and justice. We have come to this holy land to remind the United States: It is now a very urgent moment. It is not when it is not forcing leisurely or takes progressive sedatives. It is time to achieve democracy. Nowadays, I will go out of the dark and desolate ethnic isolation and embark on the Yangguan Avenue of ethnic equality. Nowadays, our country will go out of race inequality, and embark on the meteorite of the hand and feet. Now is the time when all of the children of God truly impartial. Ignore the urgency of this moment and will be fatal for the country. Freedom and equality is not mentioned, the black people will not pass the hot summer heat. In 1963, it was not an end, but a start. If the country still is in my life, those who wish that the black will only have to be filled, and the people who will be satisfied will be expected. Before the black is citizen, the United States will neither peace and will not calm. The cyclone of the resistance will continue to shock the cornerstone of our country until the glorious justice. However, there are some words I have to say to people who stand on the hard threshold of the uterus of justice. Don't misunderstand your crime during the process of our legal status. We don't swallow the bitter wine of hatred, to lift the free thirst for free. We should always strive to strively.
We can't allow our creative protests to violent action. We should continue to sublimate the lofty realm of dealing with the strength of the soul. The new miraculous combat spirit of the black society should not lead to our untrust in all white people - because many white brothers have realized: their fate is closely connected to our destiny, their freedom is free to our free Related. They come here today to participate in the rally. We can't act alone. When we act, we must guarantee the courage to go straight. We can't go back. Someone asked the people of the people: "When will you be satisfied?" As long as the black people are still unable to describe the victim of the police atrocities, we will never be satisfied. As long as we are in the Tour, we will never be satisfied by the roadside car tourist hostel and city hotel. As long as the black people's basic activity is limited to a small black residential area to a large black residential area, we will never be satisfied. As long as our children are "only white" brand deprived personality, we will never be satisfied with dignity. As long as the black people in Mississippi can't participate in the elections, the black people in New York think they are not coheed with the elections, and we will never be satisfied. No, no, we will not be satisfied, until justice is like water, just like spring. I am not noticed that you have some people who have been hard and hard to come here. You have just got out of a small cell. Some people come from persecutive storm attacks and police violation of the storm in the pursuit of freedom. You have a wind, and you will have trouble. Continue to work hard, believe: innocent suffering is finally saved. Go back to Mississippi; go back to Yalabama; return to South Carolina to go; return to Georgia to go; go back to Louisiana; return to the slums and black people in our northern city. To know, this situation can be changed. We don't sink in the deep abyss of despair. Friends, today I have to say to you, despite the difficulties, I still have a dream. This dream is deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a day, this country will rise, realize the true meaning of its business creed: "We believe that these truths are self-evident: people are equal." I dream of one day, in the red hill of Georgia, former The son of the slave can sit as the son of the old slave owner, as a hand. I have a dream one day, even Mississippi - an unscrupulous and oppressed heat wave forced people, will also be transformed into a freedom and fair Qingqing Oasis. I have a dream one day, my four little daughters will live in a country that is not the skin, but is in a country with the advantages and destitutes of the character. I have a dream today. I have a day of dreams, Alielabama will change - although the state governor now says what to make objection to the federal decree and refuse to perform - there, black children can and white children's brothers and sisters Work in hand. I have a dream today. I have a dream for a day, deep valley bridging, alpine, and frankly, the way of music, the light of God, and the world of the world. This is our hope. This is the belief I will bring back to the south. With this belief, we can explore the hopes from the desperate mountains. With this belief, we can make the noisy quarrel of the country, become a pleasant symphony with your hand. With this belief, we can work together, pray together, fight together, put it together, maintain freedom together, because we know, we will finally get free one day. On this day, all of God can sing this song with a new meaning: my motherland, the cute freezer, I sing for you. This is the place where my ancestors is old, this is where the early immigration is proud, letting the sound of freedom, resounding every hill.
If the United States becomes a great country, this must be realized. Therefore, let the freedom sound through the peak of new Hampshire! Let the freedom sound through the Chongshan Mountains in New York! Let the freedom sound in the peak of Algignana in Pantun Farm! Let the freedom sound from the Snowy Rocky Mountain in Colorado! Let the freedom sound through the plunge peaks in California! No, not only this; let the freedom sound through the stone mountains of Georgia! Let the freedom sound from the Tennesi's Wangshan! Let the freedom sound from a mountain peak in the Xicipi, one of the earth! Let the sound of freedom resound every hill! When we let the sound of freedom, when we let the freedom sound from every village Xiaozhuang, every state government town, we can speed up this day. At that time, all of God, black and white, Jewish, Jewish, Jesus and Catholic, will be able to join hands with the old black spiritual song: "Finally, it is free! Thank you. God, we finally arrived! "Source: http://det.tjfsu.edu.cn/speech/speech_dream.htm
1.OR GOD IS Marching on! - 25 March 1965
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Let us therefore continue our triumphant march (Uh huh) to the realization of the American dream. (Yes, sir) Let us march on segregated housing (Yes, sir) until every ghetto or social and economic depression dissolves, and Negroes and whites live side by side in decent, safe, and sanitary housing. (Yes, sir) Let us march on segregated schools (Let us march, Tell it) until every vestige of segregated and inferior education becomes a thing of the past, and Negroes and whites Study side-by-side in the solidly-herating context of the classroom.
LET US March ON Poverty (Let Us March) Until No American Parent Has To Skip A Meal So That Their Children May Eat. (Yes, SIR) March ON Pover (Let Us March) UnTil No Starved Man Walks The Streets Our Cities and towns (Yes, sir) in search of jobs that do not exist. (Yes, sir) Let us march on poverty (Let us march) until wrinkled stomachs in Mississippi are filled, (that's right) and the idle industries of Appalachia are realized And Revitalized, And Broken Lives in Sweltering Gheettos Are Mended and Remolded.
Let us march on ballot boxes, (Let's march) march on ballot boxes until race-baiters disappear from the political arena.Let us march on ballot boxes until the salient misdeeds of bloodthirsty mobs (Yes, sir) will be transformed into the calculated good Deeds of Orderly Citizens. (Speak, Doctor)
Let us March on Ballot Boxes (Let US March) Until The Wallace OF Our NATION TREMBLE AWAY IN SILENCE.
Let Us March ON Ballot Boxes (Let Us March) UnTil We send tour City Councils (Yes, SIR), State Legislatures, (Yes, SIR) and the United States Congress, (Yes, SIR) MEN WHO WILL NOT FEAR TO DO Justly, Love Mercy, And Walk Humbly with thy god.
Let us March on Ballot Boxes (Let Us March. March) Until Brotherhood Becomes More Than A Meaningless Word in An Opening Prayer, But The Order of The Day on Every Legislanchive Agenda.
LET US March On Ballot Boxes (YES) Until All Over ALABAMA GOD'S CHILDREN WILL BE ABLE TO WALK The Earth in Decency and Honor.
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I came to Say to you this Afternoon, HOWEVER DIFFICULT The Moment, (Yes, SIR) HOWEVER FRUSTRANTING THE HOUR, IT WILL NOT BE Long, (NO SIR) Because "Truth Crushed to Earth Will Rise Again" (Yes, SIR)
How long? NOT Long, (Yes, SIR) Because "No Lie CAN Live Forever." (Yes, SIR)
How long? NOT Long, (All right. How long) Because "You Shall Reap What You Sow." (Yes, SIR)
How long? (How long?) Not long: (not long)
Truth Forever on the scaffold, (Speak)
Wrong Forever on The Throne, (Yes, SIR)
Yet That Scaffold Sways The Future, (Yes, SIR)
And, Behind the Dim Unknown,
Standeth God with the shadow,
Keeping Watch Above His Own.
How long? NOT LONG, BECAUSE The Arc of The MORAL Universe Is Long, But It Bends Toward Justice (Yes, SIR)
How long? NOT Long, (NOT Long) Because: Mine Eyes Have Seen The glory of the coming of the limö; (Yes, SIR)
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath is store; (yes)
He Has Loosed The Fateful Lightning of His Terrible Swift Sword; (Yes, SIR)
His Truth Is Marching on. (Yes, SIR)
He Has Sounded Forth The Trumpet That Shall Never Call Retreat; (Speak, SIR)
That's Right, He is Sifting Out the Hearts of Men Before His Judgment Seat (That's Right)
O, Be Swift, My Soul, To Answer Him! Be Jubilant My Feet!
Our god is march. (YEAH)
Glory, Hallelujah! (Yes, SIR) Glory, Hallelujah! (All Right)
2. "Give US THE BALLOT," Address At the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom - 17 May 1957
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We must realize that we are grappling with the most weighty social problem of this nation, and in grappling with such a complex problem there is no place for misguided emotionalism. (All right, That's right) We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in the struggle. We must never struggle with falsehood, hate, or malice. We must never become bitter. I know how we feel sometime. There is the danger that those of us who have been forced so long to stand amid the tragic midnight of oppression-those of us who have been trampled over, those of us who have been kicked about-there is the danger that we will become bitter. But if we will become bitter and indulge In Hate Campaigns, The New Order Which IS Emerging Will Be Nothing But A Duplication of The Old Order. (Yeah, That's All Right) ...
There is something in this universe (Yes, Yes) which justifies Carlyle in saying: ". No lie can live forever" (All right) There is something in this universe which justifies William Cullen Bryant in saying: "Truth crushed to earth will rise "(YES. All right) There IS Something in this Universe (Watch yourself) Which Justifies James Russell Lowell in Saying: Truth Forever on the scaffold,
Wrong Forever on the throne. (Oh yeah)
Yet That Scaffold Sways The Future,
AND BEHIND THE DIM UNKNOWN
Stands God (All Right), Withnin The Shadow,
Keeping Watch Above His OWN. (Yeah, Yes)
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Give us the ballot (Yes) and we will no longer plead to the federal government for passage of an anti-lynching law; we will by the power of our vote write the law on the statute books of the South (All right) and bring An end to the dateardly acts of the hooded perpetrators of violence.
Give US The Ballot (Give US THE Ballot), And We Will Transform The Salient MISDEEDS OF BLOODTHIRSTY MOBS (YEAH) INTO The Calculated Good Deeds of Orderly Citizens.
Give us the ballot (Give us the ballot), and we will fill our legislative halls with men of goodwill (All right now) and send to the sacred halls of Congress men who will not sign a "Southern Manifesto" because of their devotion to "TELL 'EM About IT)
Give us the ballot (Yeah), and we will place judges on the benches of the south who will do justly and love mercy (Yeah), and we will place at the head of the southern states governors who have felt not only the tang of THE HUMAN, But the blowy of the divine.
Give us the ballot (Yes), and we will quietly and nonviolently, without rancor or bitterness, implement the Supreme Court's decision of May seventeenth, 1954. (That's right) 3.Speech at Great March on Detroit - 23 June 1963
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And so we must say, now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to transform this pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our nation. [Applause] Now is the Time to Lift Our Nation from The Quicks Of Racial Injustice To The Solid Rock of Racial Justice. Now is the time. [applause] (now)
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And so this social revolution taking place can be summarized in three little words. They are not big words. One does not need an extensive vocabulary to understand them. They are the words "all," "here," and "now." We Want All of Our Rights, We Want Themie, And We Want Them NOW. [Applause] [Recording Interrupted]
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[Applause] realizing that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. And we've got to come to see that the problem of racial injustice is a national problem. No community in this country can boast of clean hands in the area of brotherhood. Now in the North it's different in that it does not have the legal sanction that it has in the South But it has its subtle and hidden forms and it exists in three areas:. in the area of employment discrimination, in the area of housing discrimination, and in the area of de facto segregation in the public schools. and we must come to see that de facto segregation in the North is just as injurious as the actual segregation in the South. [Applause] and so if you want to help Us in Alabama And Mississippi and Over the South, Do All this problem: http://blog.9cbs.net/asign/archive/2004/07/13/40834.aspx
