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I Have A Dream…And the Dream Has Become Reality

Posted in 44th President, Barack Obama, History with tags , , on January 21, 2009 by moragglimmerwitch

All I can say ….      abc_pol_obama_swear_in4_090120_mc1

And I Proudly quote:

“I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.”

“I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American 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 on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.”

“I have a dream that …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.”

“This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, “My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

“And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day 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!”

I have a dream today.

Martin Luther King, Jr

Washington, DC,  August 28, 1963