文档介绍：I have a Dream
I have a Dream
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I have a Dream
Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington . on
August 28, 1963 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. But one
hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not
free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled
by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One
hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the
midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the
Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds
himself an exile in his own land. So we e here today to dramatize
an appalling condition. In a sense we e to our nation's capital to
cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent
words of the Constitution and the declaration of Independence, they were
signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This
note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights
of life, liber