I
HAVE A DREAM
On
August 28, 250.000 people of all races, led by the black minister
Martin Luther king , marched in Washington DC, to demand equal rights for
negroes. In his famous speech I have a Dream , extracts from which follow,
Martin Luther King touched the conscience of the nation and pusched milions of
peolpe to action.
"
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties abnd
frustations of the moment, I still have a dream(...). 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 . I have a
dream that one day (...) the sons of former slaves and the sons of former
slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the able of brotherhood (...).
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where
they will not be judgeb by color of their skin but by the content of their
character. I have a dream today (...). And if America is to be a great nation
this must come true. ( Martin Luther King, August 28, 1963)