I have a dream speech worksheet pdf
Rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship Needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rudeĪwakening if the nation returns to business as usual. Sixty-three is not an end but a beginning. Until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of Time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid Now is the time to rise from the dark andĭesolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to We have also come to his hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce That will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and security of justice. And so we've come to cash this check, a check Refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of Sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, aĬheck that has come back marked "insufficient funds."īut we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. Insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note Guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of Promise that all men - yes, black men as well as white men - would be Promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. The architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of theĬonstitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of Segregation and the chains of discrimination. Later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of Joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.īut 100 years later, the Negro still is not free. Who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. This momentousĭecree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves We stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.įive score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as Martin Luther King at the March on Washington for Jobs and "I have a dream" (transcription du discours du 28 août 1963)
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