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This is Talk of the Nation. I'm Rebecca Roberts in Washington today. We celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King jr. Kids of Americans honor his legacy today with a national day of service. We take a moment to reflect on dr. King's life and message with his own words as we did last year on the eve of a historical presidential inauguration revisit King celebrated. I Have a Dream speech delivered on August 28th, 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

a great American in Shadow We Stand today Emancipation Proclamation

this momentous decree

as a great Beacon Light Of Hope to millions of negro slaves. Who had been seared in the flames?

if K message Arias Daybreak to end the long night of their captivity

bird 100 years later

the Negro still is not free. 100 years later

the life of a Nation 100 years The Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty. In the midst of a vast ocean of material Prosperity 100 years later.

The Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we've come here today. to dramatize the shameful condition In a sense, we've come to our nation's capital.

when The Architects of our Republic the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence

They were signing a promissory note. to which every American was to fall Al This note was a promise that all men. Yes, black man, as well as white man. What big guy running TV on any other Bill of Rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness? It is obvious today. America has defaulted on this promissory note.

obligation America has given Gandhi grow people a bad check a check, which is come back sometime.

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

We refuse to believe the battle insufficient funds in the great. So we've come to cash this check. I'll check that will give us freedom and justice.

Also coming to this house.

To remind America of the fierce urgency of now.

This is no time. Who engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism? What's the time? To make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time. Derive from a segregation to the racial Justice now is the time.

Celestron Nation from the quicksand of racial Injustice to the solid rock of Brotherhood now is the time.

the make Justice a reality for all of God's children It would be fatal for the nation. urgency of the moment sweltering Summer of the negro's

will not pass an invigorating equality. 1963

those who hope that's the Negro made it to blow off steam. And will now be content will have a rude awakening information returns to business as usual.

I will be neither rest nor Tranquility in America.

Who starred in fresh whole which leads to the Palace of Justice? And the process of gaining our rightful place. We must not.

Let us not seek to satisfy thirst for Freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct.

We must not allow our creative protest to the generating to physical violence.

We must rise to the Majestic Heights of meeting physical force with soul Force The Marvelous new militancy.

must not lead us to a distrust of all right people for many of our presence here today have come to realize that.

I have come to realize with that freedom is inextricably Bound for Freedom. We cannot walk alone. and as we walk we must make the pledge.

We cannot turn back. Trask the debit

satisfy we can never be satisfied as long as the Negro as the fifth victim of the Unspeakable how police brutality satisfy. As long as all parties heavy with the fatigue of travel cannot gain lodging in the motels or the highway is in the hotel.

we cannot be satisfied as long as

we can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of that sell food and robbed.

No, we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied Justice rolls down like Waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

That some of you have come here. autographed trials and tribulations

some of you have come fresh from now a jail cell. Some of you have come from areas where your precious quest for freedom. Left you battered by the storms of persecution. staggered by The Winds of police brutality you have been the veterans of creative suffering. to work with a page

Go back to Mississippi. Go back to Alabama. Go back to South Carolina. Go back to Georgia. Go back to Louisiana. Go back to the slums and ghettos on Northern cities. Knowing that somehow this situation.

I say to you today, my friend.

tomorrow

it is a dream the American dream. I have a dream.

This nation will rise up. live out the true meaning of frijoles de Mana created

I have a dream. Then one day on the Red Hills of Georgia.

the one thing

sweltering with the heat of Oppression be transformed into freedom and Justice. I have a dream.

my phone

Come to the back character. I have a dream today.

Alabama

having his lips in Alabama little black boys and black girls go to John Hanson Middle five boys and five girls that sisters and brothers. I have a dream today.

I have a good one day with this faith. We will be able to issue out of the Mountain of Despair a stone of Hope call Javon nation that we will see Pretty One Day.

Be able to sing with no meaning my country tis of thee sweet surprise from every Mountainside Let Freedom Ring.

Let Freedom Ring The Mighty mountains of New York Let Freedom Ring from the heightening alligators that freedom ring from the store

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Let Freedom Ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia What Freedom Ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee?

When will I see you tomorrow? When we let it ring from every from every state.

We will be able to speed up that bass.

That is of course. Dr. Martin Luther King jr. Delivering his iconic speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th. 1963.

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