’ Here he slowed down, and the crowd was almost silent. ‘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. Even he felt moved, and he had thought himself immune to this kind of thing.
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‘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.’ Looking around, Jasper saw that black and white faces alike were running with tears. ‘With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. ‘With this faith we will be able to hew, out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. ‘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 little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers – I have a dream today.
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That my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character – I have a dream today. The heartbreaking phrase ‘I have a dream’ came like an amen at the end of each ringing sentence. It was more than a speech: it was a poem and a canticle and a prayer as deep as the grave. I have a dream.’ He had hit a rhythm, and two hundred thousand people felt it sway their souls. ‘That one day even the state of Mississippi – a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of op pression – will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. ‘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 to gether at the table of brotherhood – I have a 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.
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