I Have a Dream – Address at March on Washington August 28, 1963.
“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.'”
“Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom 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!”
Sources:
- Full Text of I Have a Dream – Address at March on Washington August 28, 1963
- The Meaning of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday from the The King Center