1 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: Monday, August twenty eighth marks the sixtieth anniversary of the 2 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:12,079 Speaker 1: March in Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, d C. 3 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 1: This march was the backdrop for Reverend Martin Luther King 4 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 1: Junior's famous speech I have a Dream. The words he 5 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: spoke sixty years ago are still relevant today. So I 6 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: want to take a moment to honor Reverend King and 7 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 1: to listen to his historic speech. 8 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 2: Here is I have a dream. 9 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 3: I am happy to john with you today in what 10 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 3: will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for 11 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 3: freedom in the history array of our nation. Five score 12 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 3: years ago, a great American in whose symbolic shadow we 13 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 3: stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. 14 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 4: This momentous decree came as a great. 15 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 3: Beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who 16 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 3: had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It 17 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 3: came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night 18 00:01:50,440 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 3: of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the steel 19 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 3: is not free. One hundred years later, the life of 20 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 3: the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of 21 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 3: segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, 22 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 3: the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in 23 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:32,399 Speaker 3: the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One 24 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 3: hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the 25 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 3: corners of American society and finds himself in exile in 26 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 3: his own land. 27 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 4: And so we've come here today. 28 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 3: To dramatize a shameful condition. In a sence, we've come 29 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 3: to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the 30 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 3: architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the 31 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 3: Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a 32 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 3: promise or a note to whichever American was to fall out. 33 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 3: This note was a promise at all men, yes, black 34 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 3: men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the 35 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 3: unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 36 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 3: It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this 37 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 3: promise or note in so far as her citizens of 38 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 3: color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America 39 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 3: has given the Negro people a bad check, a check 40 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 3: which has come back mark insufficient funds. But we refuse 41 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 3: to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupted. 42 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:28,280 Speaker 4: We refuse to. 43 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 3: Believe that that are insufficient funds in the great bulks 44 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,679 Speaker 3: of opportunity of this nation. So we've come to cast 45 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:38,799 Speaker 3: this check, a check that will give us a pun 46 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 3: demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. 47 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 3: We have also come to this hall of spot to 48 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 3: remind America the fierce urgency of now. 49 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 4: This is no time. 50 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,479 Speaker 3: To engage in the luxury of cooling off or to 51 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:20,799 Speaker 3: take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time 52 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 3: to make real the promises of democracy. 53 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 4: Now is the time to. 54 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 3: Rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to 55 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:35,720 Speaker 3: the sunlit path of racial justice. 56 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:43,160 Speaker 4: Now is the time to left our nation from the 57 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 4: quick sands of. 58 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 3: Racial injustice to the solid rocker brotherhood. 59 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:49,280 Speaker 4: Now is the time. 60 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,839 Speaker 3: To make justice a reality for all of God's children. 61 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 3: It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the 62 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 3: urgency of the moment. This sweltering summit of the negro's 63 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:14,039 Speaker 3: legitimate discontent will not pass until that is an invigorating 64 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 3: autumn of freedom and equality. 65 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,279 Speaker 4: Nineteen sixty three is not an end, but a beginning. 66 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 4: Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off. 67 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 3: Steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening. 68 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 3: If the nation returns to business as usual, there will 69 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 3: be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro 70 00:06:55,720 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 3: is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds are reverd will 71 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 3: continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the 72 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 3: bright day of justice emerges. But that is something that 73 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 3: I must say to my people who stand on the 74 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 3: warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In 75 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 3: the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not 76 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 3: be guilty of wrong for deeds. Let us not sleep 77 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 3: the bet of our thirst for freedom by dreaming from 78 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 3: the couple of biddness in Utre, we will be. 79 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 4: The last of my claim of Gadi. 80 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 3: We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into 81 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 3: physical violence. 82 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:00,080 Speaker 5: Gain and again. 83 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 3: We must rise to the majestic heights, meeting physical force 84 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 3: for soul forts the marvelous new militants. 85 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 4: There which hasn't talk. The Negro community must not lead 86 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 4: us too and just touched of all white people. 87 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 3: For many of our white fathers has ever gainst white 88 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 3: lot of presidents. Here today, I'm come to realize that 89 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:40,080 Speaker 3: I take you and I'm realized live freedom is any 90 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 3: strict n the live freedom. 91 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 5: We cannot walk along. 92 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 3: As we walk, we must make the plants that we 93 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 3: shall always march ahead. 94 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 4: We cannot turn back. 95 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 3: Now those who hides can the demities and civil rights. 96 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 4: When will you be satisfied? 97 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 5: We can never be settified as long as. 98 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 3: A negros they take all the unspeakable horrors of Alstaltal. 99 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 5: We can never be satisfied, as long as long line 100 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 5: and ending with a fatigue of travel cannot gain launching 101 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:27,959 Speaker 5: in the hotels of the highways and the hotels of 102 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:28,439 Speaker 5: the city. 103 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 4: We cannot be satisfied as long as a. 104 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 3: Negro in Mississippi cannot vote, and a Negro in New 105 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 3: York belize he has nothing for which to vote. Yes, no, no, 106 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 3: We are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied 107 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 3: until justice roar holds down like waters, and righteousness like 108 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 3: a mighty stream. 109 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 4: I'm not my unmindful that some of you have come here. 110 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:26,959 Speaker 3: Out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have 111 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 3: come fresh from nar a jail sails. Some of you 112 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:36,959 Speaker 3: have come from areas where your quest for freedom left 113 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 3: you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by 114 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:47,079 Speaker 3: the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans 115 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 3: of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that 116 00:10:53,600 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 3: online suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back 117 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:05,199 Speaker 3: to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, 118 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 3: go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and 119 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:14,679 Speaker 3: ghettos of our northern cities. Knowing that somehow this situation 120 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 3: can and will be changed. Let us not while in 121 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 3: the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friend, 122 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 3: so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow. 123 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 4: I still have a dream. 124 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. 125 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 4: I have a dream that one day this nation will 126 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 4: rise up up the true meaning of its creed. 127 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 3: We hold these twos to be self evident, that all 128 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 3: men are created. 129 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:19,239 Speaker 4: I have a dream. 130 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 3: That one day, on the red hills of Georgia, the 131 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 3: sons of farmer slaves and the sons of former slave 132 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 3: owners will be able to sit down together at the 133 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 3: table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day, 134 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 3: even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the 135 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 3: heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will 136 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 3: be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. 137 00:12:56,760 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 4: I have a dream my four little children will one 138 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 4: day live in a nation where. 139 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 3: They will not be judged by the color of their skin, 140 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 3: but by the content of their character. 141 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 4: I have a dream to thee. I have a dream 142 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 4: that one day, dom in Alabama, with. 143 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 3: Its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping 144 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 3: with the words of interposition and nullification, one day, right 145 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 3: there in Alabama, little black bars and black girls will 146 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 3: be able to join hands with little white bars and 147 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 3: white girls as sisters and brothers. 148 00:13:49,800 --> 00:14:00,320 Speaker 4: I have a dream today. I have a dream aimed 149 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:00,960 Speaker 4: that one. 150 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 3: Day every vala shall be exalted, every hill in mountings 151 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 3: shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, 152 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:11,559 Speaker 3: and the crooked places will be made straight, and the 153 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:14,320 Speaker 3: gore of the Lord shall be revealed in all flesh 154 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 3: shall see it together. 155 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 4: This is our hope. This is the faith that I 156 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 4: go back to the South with. 157 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 3: With this faith we will be able to hew out 158 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 3: of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. 159 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 4: With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling. 160 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 3: Discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. 161 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 4: With this faith, we will be able to. 162 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 3: Work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go 163 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 3: to jail together, to stand up for freedom, together, knowing 164 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 3: that we will be free. 165 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 4: One day. This will be the day. 166 00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 3: This will be the day when all of God's chill 167 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 3: will be able to sing with new meaning my country 168 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 3: tears of these sweet land of liberty, of the icing 169 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 3: land where my father's died, Land of the pilgrim's pry. 170 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 4: From every mountain side. 171 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 3: Let freedom ring, And if America is to be a 172 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 3: great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring 173 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 3: from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring 174 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 3: from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring 175 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 3: from the heightening alleghenies of Pennsylvania. 176 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 4: Let freedom ring from. 177 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 3: The snow capped rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from 178 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 3: the curvation of slopes of California. But not only that, 179 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 3: Let freedom ring from stone mountain of Georgia. Let freedom 180 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 3: ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. 181 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 4: Free the ring from every hill and mole hill of. 182 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 3: Mississippi, From every mountainside, the freedom ring. 183 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 4: And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring. When 184 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 4: we let it ring. 185 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 3: From every village and every hamlet, from every state and 186 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 3: every city, we will be able to speed up that 187 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 3: day when all of God's children, black men and white men, 188 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 3: Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics will be able to 189 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 3: turn hands and sing in the words of the old 190 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 3: Negro spiritual Free at last, Free. 191 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 4: At last, Thank God a light it we are free 192 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 4: at man. 193 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:05,199 Speaker 1: Newtsworld is produced by Gingers three sixty and iHeartMedia. 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