The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 58, Ed. 1 Friday, January 23, 1987 Page: 3 of 6
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Freedom Ring' speech holds memory of King
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By Martin Luther King, Jr.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic
shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This
momentous decree came as a great bcacon 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 languished in the comers 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 Capitol to
cash a check. When the architects of out 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 unalienable 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 arc concerned.
Instead of honoring the sacred obligation, America has given
the Negro people a bad check: a 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 vault of opportunity in this nation. So we have come to
cash this check—a check that will give us upon demand the
riches of freedom and 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 make real the promises of Democracy. 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 lift our
nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rack
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 Negroes' legitimate discontent
will not pass until there is an invigoration 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
foundation 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
distnist 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 arc those who are
asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be
satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is
the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We
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can never be satisfied as long as our LxxJics, heavy with the
fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the
highways and 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 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 jail cells. Some of you have come
form 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 suffer-
ing. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering
is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to
South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go
back to the slums and ghettos of our modern 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 arc 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 the 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 little children will one day live
in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their
skin but the content of their character.
1 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
1 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 plains, and the crooked places will be made
straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all
flesh shall sec 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 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 in
Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and mole hill 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 i f
the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank
God Almighty, we are free at last!"
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Richards, Joey D. The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 58, Ed. 1 Friday, January 23, 1987, newspaper, January 23, 1987; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth332841/m1/3/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Denton+County%22: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.