I Have A Dream Speech Quotes by David Maraniss, Samuel Francis Smith, Martin Luther King, Jr., Andrew Young, Jesse Jackson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and many others.
It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue with more than 100,000 people and delivered the first major public iteration of his “I Have A Dream” speech, two months before he did it in Washington.
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountainside
Let freedom ring!
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountainside
Let freedom ring!
Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
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.
When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city…
There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.
From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy
We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail’ or from the `I Have a Dream’ speech. That was a revelation of white people.
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
