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[audience applause]

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So even though we face the difficulties

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of today and tomorrow,

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I still have a dream.

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It is a dream deeply rooted

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in the American Dream.

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I have a dream that one day

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this nation will rise up

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and live out the true
meaning of its creed.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident,

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that all men are created equal.

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[audience cheering and applause]

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I have a dream

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that one day on the red hills of Georgia

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the sons of former slaves and

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the sons of former slave owners,

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will be able to sit down together

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at the table of brotherhood.

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I have a dream

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that one day

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even the state of Mississippi,

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a state sweltering with the heat of

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injustice,

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sweltering with the heat of oppression,

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will be transformed into an oasis

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of freedom and justice.

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I have a dream

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that my four little children

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will one day live in a nation

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where they will not be judged by

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the color of their skin,

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but by the content of their character.

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I have a dream today.

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I have a dream that one day

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down in Alabama with its vicious racists,

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with its governor having his lips dripping

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with the words of interposition
and nullification.

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One day right down in Alabama

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little black boys and black girls will be

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able to join hands with little white boys

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and white girls as sisters and brothers.

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I have a dream today.

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[cheering and applause]

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I have dream that one day every valley

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shall be exalted and every hill

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and mountain shall be made low,

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the rough places will be made plain,

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and the crooked places

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will be made straight;

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and the glory of the Lord shall be

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revealed and all flesh
shall see it together.

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This is our hope, and this is the faith

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that I go back to the South with.

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With this faith, we will be able to hew

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out of the mountain of despair

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a stone of hope.

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With this faith, we will be able to

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transform the jangling discords of our

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nation into a beautiful symphony

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of brotherhood.

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With this faith, we will be able

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to work together, to pray together,

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to struggle together,

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to go to jail together,

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to stand up for freedom together,

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knowing that we will be free one day.

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And this will be the day.

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This will be the day when
all of God's children

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will be able to sing, with new meaning,

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'My country 'tis of thee,

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sweet land of liberty,

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of thee I sing.

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Land where my fathers died,

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land of the Pilgrim's pride,

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from every mountainside,

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let freedom ring!'

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And if America is to be a great nation,

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this must become true.

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And so let freedom ring from the

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prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

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Let freedom ring

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from the mighty mountains of New York.

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Let freedom ring from the heightening

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Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

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Let freedom ring from the

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snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

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Let freedom ring from the

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curvaceous slopes of California.

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But not only that.

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Let freedom ring

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from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

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Let freedom ring from

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Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

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Let freedom ring from every hill

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and molehill of Mississippi.

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From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

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And when this happens,

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and when we allow freedom ring,

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when we let it ring from every

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village and every hamlet,

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from every state and every city,

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we will be able to speed up that day

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when all of God's children,

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black men and white men,

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Jews and Gentiles,

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Protestants and Catholics,

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will be able to join hands

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and sing in the words

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of the old Negro spiritual,

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Free at last! Free at last!

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Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

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[cheering and applause]