Page 8 • Portland Observer • January 12, 1989
The Dream
I
Have
a Dream
It was on August 28, 1963, that Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his electrifying
"I have a dream" speech. It concluded the March on Washington.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the
South w ith. W ith this faith we will be able to hew out of the
mountain of despair a stone of hope. W ith this faith we will be
able to transform the jangling discord of our nation into a
beautiful symphony of brotherhood. W ith this faith we will be
able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together,
o back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to
South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Loui-
[
siana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our North
ern 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 friend, so even though we face the
difficulties of today and tom orrow, I still have a dream. It is a
dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live
out the true meaning of its creed: "W e 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 former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will
be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood; I have
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, "M y
country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land
where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every
mountainside, let freedom ring," 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 Alleghenies
a dream . . .
That one day even the state of Mississippi, a state swelter
ing with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppres
sion, will be transformed into an oasis 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 the
content of their character; 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 there in
Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join
hands with the little 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,
of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom
the snowcapped
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 mole hill 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 lasti"
every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places
will be made plain and crooked places will be made straight,
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall
see it together.
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