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!"