sábado, 7 de junio de 2008

I HAVE A DREAM (complete version in the video)

(Brief written version follows)
"I am happy to join with you today in what will 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..."
"But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free...".
"...One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity..."
"In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check...This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned..."
"This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism..."
"But there is something that I must say to my people...In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred..."
"...We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.... The marvelous new militancy...must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone..."
"As we walk...we cannot turn back..."
"There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality...as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities...as long as a Negro in Missisippi cannot vote...."
"...I say to you today, muy 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. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: " We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
"...When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, form 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 fo the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

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