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I Have A Dream - Martin Luther King

Date: January 15, 2008
Posted by: Robyn Stubbs
(Burnaby / CA)




January 15 is Martin Luther King's birthday. Here is a written excerpt and full video of "I Have A Dream" delivered August 28, 1963

"...I say to you today, my 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."

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 together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

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.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. 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 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.


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Re: I Have A Dream - Martin Luther King

By Anonymous, November 15, 2008 at 08:46

did barack obama fullfill matrin luther king's dream.!!!

Re: I Have A Dream - Martin Luther King

By Trisha Baptie, February 3, 2008 at 08:27

I was at a play place today with my youngest, everyone who has even to one knows they are filled with screaming, hyped up, sometimes even sugared up with cake and soda, little people we call our children.
The purpose of these places is for them to run around and get it all out of their systems so we can take our little treasures home and not worry about them doing it there.
It's a busy place and is filled will all types of people.
So I am sitting at a table doing some work and there is this family across the table who have 3 of the CUTEST daughters around.
The littlest one is running around everywhere with her arms out like a plane over by the table area, she almost knocks over all the drinks.
She comes back to the table area and does it again, I see mom is busy so I smile at the daughter and move the cups.
The third time she comes round, mom is still busy and I move the cups and ask her" could you please watch your airplane arms, they are hitting all the cups"
Mom twists around in her seat telling me not to tell her daughter what to do, fair enough she did not see everything going on she has no idea why I am asking her daughter to watch out.
So, I lean over the table and before I could explain to mom what happened she is telling her daughter loud enough for me to hear in a indoor playground with 50+ kids that "she doesn't need to listen to the white lady"
I never once saw this child as black and me white.
I thought of her as a child and I was trying to help a very busy mom avoid a disaster.

I was overcome with sadness and thought of this post.

Re: I Have A Dream - Martin Luther King

By Robyn Stubbs, February 4, 2008 at 09:51

That's such a sad story, Trisha! Oh, we still have so far to go...

Re: I Have A Dream - Martin Luther King

By Heather Wallace, January 15, 2008 at 22:13

Why aren't we living this man's dream yet? What excuses have we left?

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King

Re: I Have A Dream - Martin Luther King

By Trisha Baptie, January 15, 2008 at 20:35

Thank you for posting this.