I Have a Dream

Jasper Johns

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…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 they be able to sit down together

at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with

the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed

into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little 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…….

…….So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that, let freedom, ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tenneessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi,

from every mountainside.

Let freedom ring,

And when this happens,and when we allow freedom 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."

~ Martin Luther King ~