"We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence […] We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic nobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs starting "For Whites Only": We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississipi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote […].
I
say to you today, my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomrrow, I still have a dream […].
I
have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves
and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the
table of brotherhood. I have a dream that my for children will one day live in
a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the
content of their character.
I have
a drea m today! I have a dream that one day down in Alabama little black boys
and little black girls will join hands whit little white boys and little white
girls as sisters and brothers … I have a dream today!
We
will work together , pray together, go to jail together knowing that we will be
free one day…
That
day all of God's children… will free sing in the words of the old Negro
spiritual: "Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are at
last".