I Have a Dream speech by Martin Luther King .Jr HD (subtitled) — Transcript

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1. 0:00I have the pleasure to present to you dr. Martin Luther King
2. 0:11I'm happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest
3. 0:23demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago a
4. 0:42great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation
5. 0:52Proclamation this momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to
6. 1:01millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering
7. 1:08injustice it came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity
8. 1:21but 100 years later the Negro still is not free one hundred years later the
9. 1:36life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation
10. 1:41and the chains of discrimination 100 years later the Negro lives on a lonely
11. 1:51island of poverty I have but one day this nation will rise up
12. 2:02live out the true meaning of its Creed we always choose to be self-evident that
13. 2:09all men are created
14. 2:21I have a dream sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave on will be able
15. 2:35to sit down together at the table of brotherhood I have a dream that one day
16. 2:41even the state of Mississippi a state sweltering with the heat of injustice
17. 2:50sweltering with the heat of oppression be transformed into an oasis of freedom
18. 2:59and justice I have a dream my little children will one day live in a nation
19. 3:10where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content
20. 3:14of their character I have agreed
21. 3:24dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists with its governor
22. 3:34having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification
23. 3:42little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white
24. 3:47boys and white girls
25. 4:04they're revealing mountain shall be made low the rough places will be made plain
26. 4:09and the crooked places will be made with this faith we will be able to hew out of
27. 4:27the mountain of despair of soul with this faith we will be able to transform
28. 4:34the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood with
29. 4:40this faith we will be able to work together to pray together to struggle
30. 4:45together to go to jail together to stand up for freedom together
31. 4:59we'll be able to sing with new meaning my country tis of thee sweet land of
32. 5:08liberty of thee I sing land where my fathers died land of the pilgrims pride
33. 5:14from every mountainside let freedom ring and of America's to be a great nation
34. 5:21this must become true so let's freedom ring from the
35. 5:27prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire let freedom ring from the mighty mountains
36. 5:33of New York let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania
37. 5:39let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado let freedom ring
38. 5:45from the curvaceous slopes of California but not on to that let freedom ring from
39. 5:52Stone Mountain of Georgia let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain
40. 5:58of Tennessee let freedom ring from every Hill
41. 6:20from every state and every city we will be able to speed up that day when all of
42. 6:28God's children black men and white men Jews and Gentiles Protestants and
43. 6:34Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro
44. 6:39spiritual free at last