Dream Speech Longer

The following are several excerpts of the speech delivered by Dr. King on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963.

...I have a that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true of its creed: "We hold these to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
...I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the of slave owners will be able to down together at a table of . I have a dream that one day even the of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and , will be transformed into an oasis of and justice. I have a that my four children will one day live in a where they will not be by the of their skin but by the content of their . I have a dream today.
...Let ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From mountainside, let freedom . When we let ring, when we let it ring from every and every hamlet, from every state and every , we will be able to speed up that day when all of children, black men and men, Jews and , Protestants and , will
be able to join and sing in the of the old Negro , "Free at ! free at last! thank God , we are at last!"