…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 deeply rooted in the American dream….
…one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers….
…This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, “My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”
Martin Luther King, August 28, 1963
Reading the text of the entire speech gives me shivers. Every time. It’s worth reading in full.
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I love that speech, too. I memorized it in 6th grade and had to recite it to my entire class. Now, decades later, still so glad I did.
Happy MLK day!
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We still have so much work to do, but we have, indeed, come so far.
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We’ve come a long way, and still have more to go.
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