I Have A Dream Speech Quotes

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

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.
David Maraniss
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountainside
Let freedom ring!
Samuel Francis Smith
Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a dream that my four little children will one da

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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city…
Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Martin Luther King, Jr.
We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from

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.
Andrew Young
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
Martin Luther King, Jr.