I Have A Dream

Five score years ago a Great American sign

And proclaimed you know

The Emancipation that brought a beacon light of hope

To plenty of slaves who had been seared called Negroes

The flame of injustice and now a hundred years have passed

And now today we must face the true tragic facts

The Negro is still not free and though impossible

It seems I have a dream

The Constitution reads and gives the promise

That all men be guaranteed pursuit of happiness, pride of life

And liberty a check of independence cash and decree

But it is obvious America's at fault

Default on its promises gave citizens of all

And now we must demand our right to be free

'Cause I have a dream

I have dream, a dream that one day

Black boys and black girls will join hands

With white boys and girls and we'll stand sisters and brothers

Yes, I have dream, a dream that one day

Mountains and hills be made low

And all the world is told the crooked's been made straight

Till His glory is seen, I have a dream

To overlook the urgency, it would be fatal to deny equality

The autumn of freedom the year of 1963

But a beginning of the end of will be

But there is something I must say to my people

Who stand on the threshold into the palace where we go

Let's not be guilty of violence and wrong deeds

'Cause I have a dream

I have dream, a dream that one day this nation will rise up

And see the truth of this creed and equal all men will be

I have a dream, a dream that one day with a new meaning

We will sing, "My country 'tis of thee

Sweet land of liberty", freedom will ring, will ring

'Cause I have a dream

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true

So let freedom ring 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 from the snow capped Rockies of Colorado

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California

But not only that, let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee

Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi

From every mountainside, let freedom ring

I have dream, a dream that one day

Black boys and black girls will join hands

With white boys and girls and we'll stand sisters and brothers

Yes, I have dream, a dream that one day

Mountains and hills be made low

And all the world is told the crooked's been made straight

Till His glory is seen, I have a dream

Freedom will ring 'cause I have a dream

Though it impossible it seems, I have a dream

Sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners

Will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood

I have a dream

When all of God's children, black men and white men

Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics

Will be able to join hands and sing

In the words of the old Negro spiritual

Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free at last

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