The Resource January 2014 Volume 1 Issue 001 | Page 17
Transcript of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “i have a dream” Speech August 28, 1963
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.
Five score years ago, a great
American, in whose symbolic shadow
we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous
decree came as a great beacon light of
hope to millions of Negro slaves who
had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous
daybreak to end the long night of their
captivity.
But one hundred years later,
the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is
still sadly crippled by the manacles of
segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the
Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years
later, the Negro is still languished in
the corn