Sunday
Aug292004
"I Have A Dream" by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Delivered on this date
Sunday, August 29, 2004 at 07:18PM
"I Have A Dream" by Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Delivered at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963
I am happy to join with you today in what will go 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 signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. [more
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I am happy to join with you today in what will go 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 signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. [more
]- Audio of Speech [here ]