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 I Have A Dream, by Martin Luther Kiing, Jr
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"I Have A Dream"
by Martin Luther King, Jr,
Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. Source: Martin Luther King, Jr: The Peaceful Warrior, Pocket Books, NY 1968
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand 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 captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still 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 languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.
So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. we must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" we can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." 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 a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
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Re: I Have A Dream, by Martin Luther King, Jr (Re: Raja)
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شكرا يا أخت رجاء و ياأخ خالد،
غدا يوم مارتن لوثر كنج، حيث يحتفل (الأمركان) و طبعا كل العالم بهذا اليوم...ألا أن الأحتفال هنا لة طابعة الشعبى و الرسمى. فهذا اليوم أجازة عامة، تقفل المصالح الحكومية، و تصدر مؤسسة البريد الطوابع التذكارية ، و يهب كل المسئوليين بل يحرصوا على أقامة الأحتفالات و دعوة الناس ، أو الذهاب الى الأحتفالات (الشعبية)..
فالرجل غير تاريخ الشعب الأمريكى...
و طبعا يا أخت رجاء و يا أخ خالد سيأتى يوما نرى فية الأستاذ محمود محمد طة فى طوابع البريد، فيوم أستشهادة سيكون أجازة رسمية فى كل السودان، يهيب المسئولين المنتخبين لأحياء الأحتفال بها...و سيصيغوا الخطب السنوية التى تبين مامعن حياة وممات الرجل للكيفية التى أتوا بها لمناصبهم.
و سنتبادل كروت المعايدة التى تحمل أحدى صورة التى تكرمتما بأنزالها...و ستقوم المساجد بتنظيم اللقاءات الشعبية، و سيتحول منزلة الى متحف عام يحوى أشياءة البسيطة الشخصية، ستعد الغرف تماما كما فى أيام حياتة، غرفتة ، ستكون مفروشة كما كانت ، كتبة التى كان يحب قراءتها ستوضع فى نفس المكان. سيحوى متحفة ، كل ماكتب و سيحكى تاريخ حياتة، و طبعا فى المدخل سيقابلك تمثال برونزى أنيق للأستاذ...سيزور بيت الأستاذ (المتحف)، أطفال و طفلات المدارس ، و ربما كان هنالك من يشرح لليفع ما معنى التجانس و ماهى أهمية أن يفكر الأنسان..و ماهى أخطاء أجدادهم التى منها قتل المفكريين
I have a dream
هذا أن كان لأمثال رودة أن يحلموا!!!!
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Re: I Have A Dream, by Martin Luther King, Jr (Re: Mandela)
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رودا شكرا لك
أولا علي ما أوردتيه عن مارتن لوثر كينغ جونيور
وثانيا:
| Quote: و ربما كان هنالك من يشرح لليفع ما معنى التجانس و ماهى أهمية أن يفكر الأنسان..و ماهى أخطاء أجدادهم التى منها قتل المفكريين |
لرسم هذه الصورة لوطن ممكن!
إيمان
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Re: I Have A Dream, by Martin Luther Kiing, Jr (Re: Roada)
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Thank you Roada, you are always there. I have just come from the commomeration of Ustaz Mahmoudn in Iowa. It seems like you are having the talent of picturing thangs as it is. I stood there ( at the exhibition site) for a quite long time staring at the simple belongings that Ustaz Mahmoud have had in his life. Pair of Markoub , a note book, Jalabiya, Quran, Sijjada .. During my last visit to Sudan, a year ago, I went to where he lived. When I entered the place, it was overwhelming sensation, a feeling beyond the linguistic knowledge to express . When I was stepping out of that place, the same idea had crossed my mind. Could it be possible to reserve this very simple place as a monument questioning tolerance and freedom in what is supposed-to-be a Country for all of us ?
We will speed the day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing ...Free at last, Free at last, Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Re: I Have A Dream, by Martin Luther Kiing, Jr (Re: Roada)
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Happy Birthday
By:Stevi Wonder
You know it doesn't make much sense
There ought to be a law against
Anyone who takes offense
At a day in your celebration
‘Cause we all know in our minds
That there ought to be a time
That we can set aside
To show just how much we love you
And I'm sure you would agree
It couldn't fit more perfectly
Than to have a world party on the day you came to be
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday
I just never understood
How a man who died for good
Could not have a day that would
Be set aside for his recognition
Because it should never be
Just because some cannot see
The dream as clear as he
that they should make it become an illusion
And we all know everything
That he stood for time will bring
For in peace our hearts will sing
Thanks to Martin Luther King
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday
Why has there never been a holiday
Where peace is celebrated
all throughout the world
The time is overdue
For people like me and you
Who know the way to truth
Is love and unity to all God's children
It should never be a great event
And the whole day should be spent
In full remembrance
Of those who lived and died for the oneness of all people
So let us all begin
We know that love can win
Let it out don't hold it in
Sing it loud as you can
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday
Happy birthday
Happy birthday
Happy birthday
Ooh yeah
Happy birthday...
We know the key to unify all people
Is in the dream that you had so long ago
That lives in all of the hearts of people
That believe in unity
We'll make the dream become a reality
I know we will
Because our hearts tell us so
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Re: I Have A Dream, by Martin Luther Kiing, Jr (Re: Roada)
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1963
March on Washington
Despite worries that few people would attend and that violence could erupt, A. Philip Randolpf and Bayard Rustin organized the historic event that would come to symbolize the civil rights movement. A reporter from theTimes wrote, "no one could ever remember an invading army quite as gentle as the two hundred thousand civil rights marchers who occupied Washington."
Deng
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Re: I Have A Dream, by Martin Luther Kiing, Jr (Re: Roada)
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1955
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, a 43 year old black seamstress, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. The following night, fifty leaders of the Negro community met at Dexter Ave. Baptist Church to discuss the issue. Among them was the young minister, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The leaders organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which would deprive the bus company of 65% of its income, and cost Dr. King a $500 fine or 386 days in jail. He paid the fine, and eight months later, the Supreme Court decided, based on the school segregation cases, that bus segregation violated the constitution.
Deng
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Re: I Have A Dream, by Martin Luther Kiing, Jr (Re: Rawia)
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الأخت راوية ،
أحتفالك بالأستاذ محمود طة سيسعد الدكتور كنغ...و أحتفال الآخرين بكنغ حتما سيسعد الأستاذ محمود...فكلاهما فى ال(الهوى) (أخوات)...
أكتبى لنا عن الأحتفال هنا...و هل يهم أن يكون الحب و السلام عبر عن نفسة فى الباما أن كوبر؟؟؟
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Re: I Have A Dream, by Martin Luther Kiing, Jr (Re: Roada)
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الاخت روضة...تحية طيبة و بعد
الاحلام هي التي يصعب على الجبابرة انتزاعها منا
موضوع شيق و لفتة بارعة منك....
وليحيا كل شهداء الحرية و الحق في قلوبنا
و كما ذكرت الاحتفاء بأي شهيد يسعدهم جميعا
King announces on April 25, 1967, that he would not be a
candidate for the president of the United States
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very few people are like him!
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Re: I Have A Dream, by Martin Luther Kiing, Jr (Re: ahmed_asad)
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Martin Luther King
He led a mass struggle for racial equality that doomed segregation and changed America forever
By JACK E. WHITE
Intro: Our Century ... and the Next One
21st Century: The Shape of the Future
Monday, April 13, 1998
It is a testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. that nearly every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. It is a measure of how sorely his achievements are misunderstood that most of them are located in black neighborhoods.
Three decades after King was gunned down on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tenn., he is still regarded mainly as the black leader of a movement for black equality. That assessment, while accurate, is far too restrictive. For all King did to free blacks from the yoke of segregation, whites may owe him the greatest debt, for liberating them from the burden of America's centuries-old hypocrisy about race. It is only because of King and the movement that he led that the U.S. can claim to be the leader of the "free world" without inviting smirks of disdain and disbelief. Had he and the blacks and whites who marched beside him failed, vast regions of the U.S. would have remained morally indistinguishable from South Africa under apartheid, with terrible consequences for America's standing among nations. How could America have convincingly inveighed against the Iron Curtain while an equally oppressive Cotton Curtain remained draped across the South?
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Even after the Supreme Court struck down segregation in 1954, what the world now calls human-rights offenses were both law and custom in much of America. Before King and his movement, a tired and thoroughly respectable Negro seamstress like Rosa Parks could be thrown into jail and fined simply because she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus so a white man could sit down. A six-year-old black girl like Ruby Bridges could be hectored and spit on by a white New Orleans mob simply because she wanted to go to the same school as white children. A 14-year-old black boy like Emmett Till could be hunted down and murdered by a Mississippi gang simply because he had supposedly made suggestive remarks to a white woman. Even highly educated blacks were routinely denied the right to vote or serve on juries. They could not eat at lunch counters, register in motels or use whites-only rest rooms; they could not buy or rent a home wherever they chose. In some rural enclaves in the South, they were even compelled to get off the sidewalk and stand in the street if a Caucasian walked by.
The movement that King led swept all that away. Its victory was so complete that even though those outrages took place within the living memory of the baby boomers, they seem like ancient history. And though this revolution was the product of two centuries of agitation by thousands upon thousands of courageous men and women, King was its culmination. It is impossible to think of the movement unfolding as it did without him at its helm. He was, as the cliche has it, the right man at the right time.
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Re: I Have A Dream, by Martin Luther Kiing, Jr (Re: Roada)
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What Is Your Life's Blueprint?
Six months before he was assassinated, King spoke to a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia on October 26, 1967.
I want to ask you a question, and that is: What is your life's blueprint?
Whenever a building is constructed, you usually have an architect who draws a blueprint, and that blueprint serves as the pattern, as the guide, and a building is not well erected without a good, solid blueprint.
Now each of you is in the process of building the structure of your lives, and the question is whether you have a proper, a solid and a sound blueprint.
I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one in your life's blueprint, should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your worth and your own somebodiness. Don't allow anybody to make you fell that you're nobody. Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.
Secondly, in your life's blueprint you must have as the basic principle the determination to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor. You're going to be deciding as the days, as the years unfold what you will do in life — what your life's work will be. Set out to do it well.
And I say to you, my young friends, doors are opening to you--doors of opportunities that were not open to your mothers and your fathers — and the great challenge facing you is to be ready to face these doors as they open.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great essayist, said in a lecture in 1871, "If a man can write a better book or preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, even if he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door."
This hasn't always been true — but it will become increasingly true, and so I would urge you to study hard, to burn the midnight oil; I would say to you, don't drop out of school. I understand all the sociological reasons, but I urge you that in spite of your economic plight, in spite of the situation that you're forced to live in — stay in school.
And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. don't just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn't do it any better.
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley. Be be the best little shrub on the side of the hill.
Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
— From the estate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Re: I Have A Dream, by Martin Luther Kiing, Jr (Re: Tabaldina)
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العزيزة رودا والحاضرين انتصابا هنا فى ذكري مارتن لوثر كنغ
لم تتركو/ن لى شيئا لاقوله فالجمال فى المواقف و مواقف الجمال قد سطرها اشجع الرجال والنساء من امثال كمغ ومونتجمري و طه , سيطول الظلام و لكن صدقينى يا رودا سيصبح منزل الاستاذ محمود من المتاحف النادرة فى تاريخنا الوطنى و سيكون يوم رحيله يوم من الايام الخالدة للغاية فى بلادنا
بكري
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 Re: I Have A Dream, by Martin Luther Kiing, Jr (Re: Roada)
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" I have a dream...
I have a dream that one day little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers
I have a dream today"
Welcome to
A Celebration of the Man and the Holiday
Thanks very much Roada
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Raja
إيمان أحمد
حسن الملك
Deng
Tumadir
Rawia
أحمد أمين
ahmed_asad
Bakry Eljack
Yasir Elsharif
مريم الطيب
فيس بوك
تويتر
انستقرام
يوتيوب
بنتيريست