Martin Luther King
M.L. KING'S "I HAVE A DREAM" SPEECH - AUG. 28,
1963 I am happy to join with you today in what will go
down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in
the history of our nation. 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 of hope to millions of slaves,
who had been seared in the flames of whithering injustice. It
came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their
captivity. But one hundered years later, the colored America
is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the
colored American is still sadly crippled by the manacle of
segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred
years later, the colored American lives on a lonely island of
poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.
One hundred years later, the colored American is still
languishing in the corners of American society and finds......
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