Godspeed everyone. I believe that everyone is very familiar with Dr. King's speech but have actually never read it. The "I Have a Dream..." portion of the speech is fantastic, but the rest of it is pretty amazing as well, and that is why I chose these excerpts to share! Enjoy your day off and "Let Freedom Ring!!
...we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition...Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children... and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together... 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 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."...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!"
The chorus to this song is fantastic!! Take a listen...
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