"I have a dream". Speech Martin Luther King

"I have a dream today!"
M.L. King, 08.28.1963g.

Five tens of years ago, the great American, under whose symbolic canopy we gathered today, signed a proclamation about the liberation of blacks. This important decree has become a majestic Lighthouse of Light of Hope for millions of black slaves, laid by flames of sewing injustice. He became a joyful dawn, completing the long night of captivity.
But after a hundred years, we are forced to recognize the tragic fact that the ebony is still not free. After a hundred years, the life of the Negro, unfortunately, is still crippled by the shackles of segregation and discrmination chambers. After a hundred years, the Negro lives on the deserted island of poverty in the midst of the huge ocean of material prosperity. After a hundred years, the Negro still languishes on the backyards of the American society and finds itself in the exile on its own Earth. So we came here today to emphasize the drama of the deplorable situation.
In some sense, we arrived in the capital of our state to get cash on a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the wonderful words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they signed the bill who had to inherit every American. According to this bill, all people guaranteed essential rights to life, freedom and desire for happiness.
Today it became apparent that America was not able to pay on this bill what was laid by her color citizens. Instead of paying this holy duty, America issued a fake check with the Negro people who returned to the note of the "lack of funds". But we refuse to believe that the Bank of Justice went bankrupt. We refuse to believe that in huge repositors of the possibilities of our state lacking funds. And we came to get on this check - the check, according to which the treasures of freedom and guarantee of justice will be issued. We arrived here, in this sacred place, also in order to remind America about the urgent requirement of today. Now is not the time to be satisfied with the peaceful measures or take a sedative medicine of gradual decisions. It is time to get out of the dark valley of segregation and enter the path of racial justice on the sun flooded. It is time to open the doors of opportunities to all God's children. It is time to withdraw our nation from the Sybuchi sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of the brotherhood.
For our state it would be deadly to ignore special importance this moment And underestimate the determination of blacks. The hot summer of legitimate discontent of blacks will not end until the invigorating autumn of freedom and equality comes. 1963 is not the end, and the beginning. Those who hoped that Negra needed to release steam and that he will now calm down, there is a harsh awakening if our nation returns to the usual everyday life. As long as the Negar is not provided by his civil rights, America does not see neither serenity or peace. Revolutionary storms will continue to shock the foundations of our state until the bright day of justice comes.
But there is still something that I have to say to my people standing on the fertile trust at the entrance to the Palace of Justice. In the process of conquesting with proper place, we should not give grounds for accusations of non-residential actions. Let's not strive to quench our thirst for freedom, biting bitterness and hatred from the bowl.
We should always lead our fight against noble advantages and discipline. We should not afford that our creative protest degenerate into physical violence. We must strive to achieve majestic heights, responding to the physical strength of the power of the Spirit. The wonderful militancy, which took possession of the Negro Society, should not lead us to distrust by all the white people, since many of our white brothers realized, as evidenced by their presence here today, that their fate is closely connected with our fate and their freedom is inevitablely connected with Our freedom. We can not go alone.
And starting the movement, we must swear that we will go ahead.
We can't turn back. There are those who ask those who are dedicated to the protection of civil rights: "When do you calm down?" We will never calm down, while our bodies who have relieved from fatigue caused by long journeys will not be able to get the night in roadside motels and city hotels. We will not calm down until the main type of movement of the Negra remains moving from a small ghetto to a large one. We will not calm down, while Negro in Mississippi can not vote, and ebony in
New York believes that he has nothing to vote for. No, we have no reason to calm, and we will never calm down until justice starts to fall, like waters, and the righteousness is not like a powerful stream.
I do not forget that many of you arrived here, passing through great trials and suffering. Some of you arrived here with straight prison chambers. Some of you arrived from the districts, in which the storms of persecution and the storms of police cruelty were collected for your desire for freedom. You have become veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work, believe in the fact that undesuned suffering is swimming.
Return to Mississippi, return to Alabama, go back to Louisiana, return to the slums and ghetto of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation may change and change. Let's not suffer in despair valley.
I tell you today, my friends, that, despite the difficulties and disappointment, I have a dream. This is a dream, deeply rooted in the American Dream.
i have a dream that the day will come when our nation will come and live to the true meaning of your maiden: "We consider self-evident that all people are created equal."
i have a dream that you will come on the red hills of Georgia, when the sons of the former slaves and sons of former slave owners will be able to grasp together at the Brotherhood table.
i have a dream that the day will come, when even the state of Mississippi, a desert state exhausted from the heat of injustice and oppression will be turned into an oasis of freedom and justice.
i have a dream that the day will come when four of my children will live in a country where they will be judged by the color of their skin, but by what they represent themselves.
i have a dream today.
i have a dream that the day will come when in Alabama, the governor of which now declares interference in the internal affairs of the state and non-recognition of the action of the laws adopted by the Congress, will be created by the situation in which small black boys and girls will be able to take hands with small white boys And girls and go together, like brothers and sisters.
i have a dream today.
i have a dream that the day will come, when all the lowlands will be raised, all the hills and mountains will be devastated, uneven areas will be turned into plains, curved places will be straight, the greatness of the Lord will appear before us and all mortals will make sure that this.
Such is our hope. This is a faith with which I am returning to south.
With this faith we can cut down the stone of hope from the mountain of despair. With this faith we will be able to turn the unstasive voices of our people in the beautiful Symphony of the Brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, together to pray, fight together, go to prison together, to protect the freedom, knowing that one day we will be free.
It will be a day when all God's children can sing, putting a new meaning in these words: "My country, it's me, sweet earth of freedom, I'm sicking you. Earth, where my fathers died, the pride of Pilgrims, let the freedom rings with All mountain slopes. "
And if America has to become a great country, it should happen.
Let the freedom rings from the peaks of the amazing hills of New Hampshire!
Let freedom rings with the Mighty Mountains of New York!
Let freedom rings from the High Allegian Pennsylvania Mountains!
Let the freedom rings from the Snow-covered Rocky Mountains Colorado!
Let freedom rings from the curved mountain vertices California!
Let the freedom rings from the mountains of Lukaut in Tennessee!
Let the freedom rings from every hill and every Bugard Mississippi!
With every mountain slope, let the freedom ride!
When we allow freedom to ring when we allow it to ring each village and every village, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up the onset of the day when all God's children, black and white, Jews and pagans, Protestants and Catholics will be able to Take on the hands and stitching the words of the old black spiritual anthem: "FREE FINALLY! Free finally! Thanks to the Almighty Lord, we are free finally!"

"I have a dream" ("I dream", "I Have a Dream") - the name of the most famous speech Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King uttered this speech around half a century ago on August 28, 1963 with the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during a march to Washington for workplaces and freedom. In this speech, King, the whole world proclaimed his vision of the future of the United States of America, where the white and black population could coexist as equal citizens of their country.

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Martin Luther King's speech "I have a dream" and to the present it is a generally accepted masterpiece of oratory skills. Probably, many famous politicians repeatedly revised her, shelving their rhetorical skills.

Oratory techniques

Let's look at this famous speech from the point of view of using Martin Luther King special speakers, making the abstracts of his speech, turning his performance to the most powerful campaign weapon.

Style and format. Martin Luther King, being a Baptist priest, said this speech-sermon. Of course, it was not a preaching in its pure form, but the performance passed in a religious format, at that time so close for 300 thousand Americans who were standing at the foot of the Monument Lincoln. The performance of the speech is primarily dictated by the author's refusal from standard political slogans and the appeal to such a personal story about his dream.

Preparation for the performance. It is worth noting that this speech was not spontaneous, "I have a dream" Martin Luther King is consciously and very seriously. In the course of the speech, the author occasionally enjoyed his entries that helped him pronounce a magnificent emotional speech, without reservation and nothing. His voice sounded so natural and confident that this confidence was instantly passed to all those present. Without careful preparation, it would be simply impossible to pronounce such an infectious speech.

Metaphors. "We can cut down the stone of hope from the Mountain of despair", "We will be able to turn the unstasive voices of our people in the beautiful Symphony of the Brotherhood." The metaphors made the theses of King more clearly, brighter, and were able to truly give his thoughts emotional shades of the real dream, bring them to the most depth of consciousness and hearts of the listeners.

Quotes. Speech King is abounding allutias on the old and New Testament, Declaration of Independence of the United States, Manifesto on the release of slaves and the Constitution of the United States. The author deliberately uses quotes from those sources that are recognized as among its supporters and among opponents, thus addressing their speech and the other, increasing their chances of impact on the listeners.

Temp and pauses. The most important role in this speech is played by the pace of pronouncing text and logical pauses. They distinguish each phrase of speech, every finished thought. The main tempo of speech smooth, with a gradual tendency to accelerate, strengthen the emotional component, which heats the crowd of listeners, tearing out loud ovations and cries of approval.

The audience. You most likely noticed against the backdrop of King's speech by nodes, who reflect their confidence in the speaker, a real faith in his ideas. These individuals affect our perception of speech "I Have a Dream" subconsciously, using a human tendency to a conformism, the reluctance to go against the opinion of the majority. This speech is used by many politicians, it has not yet lost its relevance to this day.

Cyclic speech. Speech King can not be called a typical consistent presentation of one thought. Pay attention to the fact that it is repeatedly returning to certain theses of his speech. General places are the repeated appeals of the speaker to their comrades from Colorado, Mississippi, Alabama, who echoing with the ideas already mentioned by the author earlier, return the listeners to these thoughts, make it once again think about the main things for King.

Common theses

The concept of speech is built so that Martin Luther King is divided by his dream with his comrades. He does not declare how it should be and what should be done, but speaks only about what dreams of. However, the form of speech presentation does not detract from the influence of his abstracts to the audience, because King does not simply declare, calling to the mind, but affects the feelings of the listeners and inspires their ideas in their heads, their dreams. And this dream becomes common, and the people begins to believe in it.

In addition, Martin Luther King addresses his speech not only to the audience gathered at the Lincoln Memorial, but also by the leadership of the country, people who host the most important decisions. This fact is dictated by the special logic structure of theses in speech of the speaker. We can say that some of the statements and statements by Martin Luther King in the speech "I Have A Dream" were similar to the blackmail of the US authorities: "We will not calm until ...", "he says, turning to his comrades to designate Their feeling of identity with the protest movement, on the one hand, and turning to their opponents to force them to enter into negotiations to avoid unrest, on the other hand.

Quotes of speech

"I Have a Dream" - "I have a dream"

"I Say To Youday, My Friends, So Even Though We Face The DiffiCulties of Today and Tomorrow. I Still Have A Dream. IT IS A Dream Deeply Rooted in the American Dream. " "And although we are faced with difficulties today and will face them tomorrow, I still have a dream." This dream is deeply rooted in the American Dream. "

"I Have A Dream That One Day Down in Alabama, with its Vicious Racists, With its Governor Having His Lips Dripping with the Words of Interposition and Nullification; One Day Right Down in Alabama Little Black Boys and Black Girls Will Be Able to Join Hands with Little White Boys and White Girls AS Sisters and Brothers. " - "I dream today that one day in Alabama with her evil racists and the governor, from whose lips words about interference and annulment, one day, it was in Alabama, small black boys and girls will take way as sisters and brothers for hands with small White boys and girls. "

Martin Luther King (1929-1968) - American priest and public figure, leader of the civil rights of the Black population in the 1950-1960s. In October 1964, King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to the movement of non-violent resistance to racial oppression. In 1968, he organized the "Campaign of Poor People" to combine the poor of all races in the fight against poverty. To support the strike of the garbers, he went to Memphis (Tennessee), where he was killed on April 4, 1968

"I have a dream" - The most famous speech Martin Luther King, in which he described his vision of the future, where white and black US citizens will be able to enjoy equal rights and opportunities.

Martin Luther King. I have a dream

Five tens of years ago, the great American, under whose symbolic canopy we gathered today, signed a proclamation about the liberation of blacks. This important decree has become a majestic Lighthouse of Light of Hope for millions of black slaves, laid by flames of sewing injustice. He became a joyful dawn, completing the long night of captivity.

But after a hundred years, we are forced to recognize the tragic fact that the ebony is still not free. After a hundred years, the life of the Negro, unfortunately, is still crippled by the shackles of segregation and discrmination chambers. After a hundred years, the Negro lives on the deserted island of poverty in the midst of the huge ocean of material prosperity. After a hundred years, the Negro still languishes on the backyards of the American society and finds itself in the exile on its own Earth. So we came here today to emphasize the drama of the deplorable situation.

In some sense, we arrived in the capital of our state to get cash on a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the wonderful words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they signed the bill who had to inherit every American. According to this bill, all people guaranteed essential rights to life, freedom and desire for happiness. Today it became apparent that America was not able to pay on this bill what was laid by her color citizens. Instead of paying this holy duty, America issued a fake check with the Negro people who returned to the note of the "lack of funds". But we refuse to believe that the Bank of Justice went bankrupt. We refuse to believe that in huge repositors of the possibilities of our state lacking funds. And we came to get on this check - the check, according to which the treasures of freedom and guarantee of justice will be issued. We arrived here, in this sacred place, also in order to remind America about the urgent requirement of today. Now is not the time to be satisfied with the peaceful measures or take a sedative medicine of gradual decisions. It is time to get out of the dark valley of segregation and enter the path of racial justice on the sun flooded. It is time to open the doors of opportunities to all God's children. It is time to withdraw our nation from the Sybuchi sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of the brotherhood.

For our state, it would be deadly to ignore the special importance of this point and underestimate the determination of the blacks. The hot summer of legitimate discontent of blacks will not end until the invigorating autumn of freedom and equality comes. 1963 is not the end, and the beginning. Those who hoped that Negra needed to release steam and that he will now calm down, there is a harsh awakening if our nation returns to the usual everyday life. As long as the Negar is not provided by his civil rights, America does not see neither serenity or peace. Revolutionary storms will continue to shock the foundations of our state until the bright day of justice comes.

But there is still something that I have to say to my people standing on the fertile trust at the entrance to the Palace of Justice. In the process of conquesting the right place, we should not give grounds for accusations of non-residential deeds. Let's not strive to quench our thirst for freedom, biting bitterness and hatred from the bowl.

We should always lead our fight against noble advantages and discipline. We should not afford that our creative protest degenerate into physical violence. We must strive to achieve majestic heights, responding to the physical strength of the power of the Spirit. The wonderful militancy, which took possession of the Negro Society, should not lead us to distrust by all the white people, since many of our white brothers realized, as evidenced by their presence here today, that their fate is closely connected with our fate and their freedom is inevitablely connected with Our freedom. We can not go alone. And starting the movement, we must swear that we will go ahead. We can't turn back. There are those who ask those who are dedicated to the protection of civil rights: "When do you calm down?" We will never calm down, while our bodies who have relieved from fatigue caused by long journeys will not be able to get the night in roadside motels and city hotels. We will not calm down until the main type of movement of the Negra remains moving from a small ghetto to a large one. We will not calm down until the Negro in Mississippi can vote, and the Negro in New York thinks that he has nothing to vote for. No, we have no reason to calm, and we will never calm down until justice starts to fall, like waters, and the righteousness is not like a powerful stream. I do not forget that many of you arrived here, passing through great trials and suffering. Some of you arrived here with straight prison chambers. Some of you arrived from the districts, in which the storms of persecution and the storms of police cruelty were collected for your desire for freedom. You have become veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work, believe in the fact that undesuned suffering is swimming.

Return to Mississippi, return to Alabama, go back to Louisiana, return to the slums and ghetto of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation may change and change. Let's not suffer in despair valley.

I tell you today, my friends, that, despite the difficulties and disappointment, I have a dream. This is a dream, deeply rooted in the American Dream. I have a dream that the day will come when our nation will come and live to the true meaning of your maiden: "We consider self-evident that all people are created equal." I have a dream that you will come on the red hills of Georgia, when the sons of the former slaves and sons of former slave owners will be able to grasp together at the Brotherhood table.

I have a dream that the day will come, when even the state of Mississippi, a desert state exhausted from the heat of injustice and oppression will be turned into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that the day will come when four of my children will live in a country where they will be judged by the color of their skin, but by what they represent themselves.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that the day will come when in Alabama, the governor of which now declares interference in the internal affairs of the state and non-recognition of the action of the laws adopted by the Congress, will be created by the situation in which small black boys and girls will be able to take hands with small white boys And girls and go together, like brothers and sisters.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that the day will come, when all the lowlands will be raised, all the hills and mountains will be devastated, uneven areas will be turned into plains, curved places will be straight, the greatness of the Lord will appear before us and all mortals will make sure that this.

Such is our hope. This is a faith with which I am returning to the south. With this faith we can cut down the stone of hope from the mountain of despair. With this faith we will be able to turn the unstasive voices of our people in the beautiful Symphony of the Brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, together to pray, fight together, go to prison together, to protect the freedom, knowing that one day we will be free. It will be a day when all God's children can sing, putting a new meaning in these words: "My country, it's me, sweet earth of freedom, I'm sicking you. Earth, where my fathers died, the pride of Pilgrims, let the freedom rings with All mountain slopes. " And if America has to become a great country, it should happen.

Let the freedom rings from the peaks of the amazing hills of New Hampshire!

Let freedom rings with the Mighty Mountains of New York!

Let freedom rings from the High Allegian Pennsylvania Mountains!

Let the freedom rings from the Snow-covered Rocky Mountains Colorado!

Let the freedom rings from the curved mountain peaks of California!

Let the freedom rings from the mountains of Lukaut in Tennessee!

Let the freedom rings from every hill and every Bugard Mississippi!

With every mountain slope, let the freedom ride!

When we allow freedom to ring when we allow it to ring each village and every village, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up the onset of the day when all God's children, black and white, Jews and pagans, Protestants and Catholics will be able to Take on the hands and stitching the words of the old black spiritual anthem: "FREE FINALLY! Free finally! Thanks to the Almighty Lord, we are free finally!"

Martin Luther King is famous for statements not only about human rights, but also about morality. Courage, courage, perseverance and nobility - perhaps, a small part of the characteristics that American politician possessed:

"Love is the only force that can turn any enemy into a friend.

If a person has not discovered something that he is ready to die for himself, he is not able to fully live

If I was told that tomorrow the end of the world comes, then today I would plant a tree.

Science studies overtook spiritual development. We have managed rockets and unmanaged people.

The limit measure of human values \u200b\u200bis not how he behaves at the clock comfort and convenience, but how he keeps in the time of struggle and contradictions.

Cowardice asks - Is it safe? Feature asks - is it prudent? Vanity asks - is it popular? But conscience asks - is it right? And the time comes when you need to take a position that is not a safe, nor prudent, nor popular, but it needs to be taken, because it is correct. "

Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929 in the city of Atlanta (Georgia) in the family of Pastor Baptist Church. King's house was located on Obern-Avenue - the Atlanta district, where the dark-skinned, belonging to the middle class. At the age of 13, he entered the Lyceum at the University of Atlanta. At the age of 15, he won the contest of speakers held by the African American organization of Georgia.

In the fall of 1944, King entered the Morhauz College. During this period, he became a member of the National Progress Association of the Color Population. Here he learned that not only blacks appear against racism, but many white.

In 1947, King was ordained as a minister, becoming an assistant father in the church. Having received a bachelor's degree in Sociology in college in 1948, he entered the Crowzer's theological seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, where in 1951 he received a degree of bachelor of theology. In 1955, Boston University was awarded the degree of doctor of theology.

King very often visited the Baptist Church of Ebesezer, where his father served.

In 1954, King became pastor of the Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. In Montgomery, he led the large campaign of the black population against racial segregation in public transport, after in December 1955 there was an incident with Rosa Parks. Boycott bus lines in Montgomery, which lasted 381 days, despite the resistance of the authorities and racists, led to the success of the action - the US Supreme Court recognized the segregation in Alabama unconstitutional.

In January 1957, King was elected head of the organization "Conference of the leadership of Christians of the South", created to combat the civil rights of the African American population. In September 1958, he was injured with a knife in Harlem. In 1960, King at the invitation of Jawaharlala Nehru visited India, where he studied the activities of Mahatma Gandhi.

With her performances (some of them are now considered a classic of oratory art), he urged to achieve equality in peaceful ways. His speeches gave energy to the movement for civil rights in society - marches began, economic boycots, mass leaving for prisons and so on.

Martin Luther King's speech was widely fame "I have a dream" ("English I Have A Dream"), which during the march to Washington in 1963, at the foot of Monument Lincolnu listened to about 300 thousand Americans. In this speech, he recalled racial reconciliation. King re-identified the essence of the American democratic dream and a new spiritual fire in it. The role of King in the non-violent struggle for the adoption of a law prohibiting racial discrimination was noted by the Nobel Prize.

As a politician, King was truly a unique figure. Leaving the essence of its leadership, he operated mainly religious terms. He defined the management of civil rights protection as a continuation of the previous pastoral service and used in most elements of African American religious experience. According to the traditional standard of American political views, he was a leader believing in Christian love.

Like a set of others bright personalities american history, King resorted to religious phraseology, thereby causing an enthusiastic spiritual response from his audience.

On March 28, 1968, King was headed by a 6-thousand protest march in the business part of Memphis (Tennessee), whose goal was supported by strikeing workers. April 3, speaking in Memphis, King said: "We have difficult days ahead. But it does not matter. Because I visited the top of the mountain ... I watched forward and saw the promised land. Maybe I will not be with you there, but I want you to know now - all of us, all the people will see this land. " April 4, at 18 o'clock 01 minutes King was mortally wounded by sniper when stood on the balcony in the Memphis motel "Lorrain"

"This murder caused a nationwide perturbation, accompanied by the black population rebounds in more than a hundred cities. In the federal capital of the house burned in six districts from the White House, and on the balconies of the Capitol and the lawns around the White House there are machine gunners. Along the country, 48 people were killed, 2.5 thousand were injured, and 70 thousand soldiers were thrown on the suppression of the riots. In the eyes of activists, King's murder symbolized the failure of the system and convinced thousands of people in the fact that non-violent resistance leads to a dead end. More than blacks turned their eyes to organizations similar to "black panthers".

The killer, James Earl Rey, received 99 years in prison. It was officially recognized that Rey was a single killer, but many believe that King fell victim to a conspiracy. The US episcopal church recognized King by the martyr who gave life for the Christian faith, his statue was posted in Westminster Abbey (England) in a number of martyrs of the 20th century. King was nominated for God's anointed, and it was believed that he was standing at the origins of the democratic achievements of movement in defense of civil rights.

King was the first black American who had a bust in the big Rotunde Capitol in Washington. The third Monday of January is celebrated in America as day Martin Luther King and is considered a national holiday.

From speech "I have a dream":

"And although we are faced with difficulties today and will face them tomorrow, I still have a dream. This dream is deeply rooted in an American dream.

I dream that one day this nation straightened and will live in accordance with the true meaning of its principle: "We consider self-evident that all people are created equal."

I dream that one day on the Red Hills of Georgia Sons of the former slaves and sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together behind the fraternal table.

I dream that the day and even Mississippi will come, exhausted from the heat of injustice and negle will turn into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I dream that the day will come when my four children will live in a country where they will be tried not in color of their skin, but in accordance with their personal qualities.

I dream today!

I dream today that one day in Alabama with her evil racists and the governor, from whose lips words about interference and cancellation, one day, it is in Alabama, small black boys and girls will take way like sisters and brothers for hands with small white boys And girls.

Original text (eng.)

And So Even Though We Face The DiffiCulties of Today and Tomorrow, 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 Slave Owners 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 State Sweltering with the Heat of Injustice, 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 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, Down in Alabama, with its Vicious Racists, With its Governor Having His Lips Dripping With the Words of "Interposition" and "NULLIFICATION" - One Day Right There in Alabama Little Black Boys and Black Girls Will Be Able to Join Hands with Little White Boys and White Girls as Sisters and Brothers.

This speech is considered one of the best speeches in history and was recognized as the best speech of the 20th century by the American Community of Oratory.

The speech was uttered during one of the most important stages of the American movement for the rights of black in the United States of 1955-1968 during a march to Washington for workplaces and freedom.
On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, the fifth of which is white, under the slogan "work and freedom".
The list of speakers entered speakers from almost all segments of society- Labor leaders, clergy, movie star, and others.
Each of the speakers was allocated to fifteen minutes, but the day belonged to the young and charismatic Baptist preacher from Tennessee.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. initially prepared a brief and more formal statement of the sufferings of African Americans trying to realize their freedom in society, compounded by discrimination. He was going to sit down when the singer Makhalia Jackson shouted: "Tell them about your dream, Martin! Tell them about your dream!"
Inspired by the screams of the audience, King used some of his past speeches, and the result was a significant statement about civil rights in America-dream of all people, all races, leather flowers and origin, sharing America, marked by freedom and democracy.

King's speech was overwhelmed by references to the Bible, and also appealed to the concepts of American freedom and equality, proclaimed long before that, but not embodied for African Americans. King, being an experienced preacher, ideally built the tempo of speech, aligning him with his singing chalk. The question made an indelible impression on all participants of the march and made ultimately the US authorities to provide all of its citizens equal rights

"I have a dream". Martin Luther King speech August 28, 1963.

(translated into Russian)

Five tens of years ago, the great American, under whose symbolic canopy we gathered today, signed a proclamation about the liberation of blacks. This important decree has become a majestic Lighthouse of Light of Hope for millions of black slaves, laid by flames of sewing injustice. He became a joyful dawn, completing the long night of captivity.

But after a hundred years, we are forced to recognize the tragic fact that the ebony is still not free. After a hundred years, the life of the Negro, unfortunately, is still crippled by the shackles of segregation and discrmination chambers. After a hundred years, the Negro lives on the deserted island of poverty in the midst of the huge ocean of material prosperity. After a hundred years, the Negro still languishes on the backyards of the American society and finds itself in the exile on its own Earth. So we came here today to emphasize the drama of the deplorable situation.

In some sense, we arrived in the capital of our state to get cash on a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the wonderful words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they signed the bill who had to inherit every American. According to this bill, all people guaranteed essential rights to life, freedom and desire for happiness.

Today it became apparent that America was not able to pay on this bill what was laid by her color citizens. Instead of paying this holy duty, America issued a fake check with the Negro people who returned to the note of the "lack of funds". But we refuse to believe that the Bank of Justice went bankrupt. We refuse to believe that in huge repositors of the possibilities of our state lacking funds. And we came to get on this check - the check, according to which the treasures of freedom and guarantee of justice will be issued. We arrived here, in this sacred place, also in order to remind America about the urgent requirement of today. Now is not the time to be satisfied with the peaceful measures or take a sedative medicine of gradual decisions. It is time to get out of the dark valley of segregation and enter the path of racial justice on the sun flooded. It is time to open the doors of opportunities to all God's children. It is time to withdraw our nation from the Sybuchi sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of the brotherhood.

For our state, it would be deadly to ignore the special importance of this point and underestimate the determination of the blacks. The hot summer of legitimate discontent of blacks will not end until the invigorating autumn of freedom and equality comes. 1963 is not the end, and the beginning. Those who hoped that Negra needed to release steam and that he will now calm down, there is a harsh awakening if our nation returns to the usual everyday life. As long as the Negar is not provided by his civil rights, America does not see neither serenity or peace. Revolutionary storms will continue to shock the foundations of our state until the bright day of justice comes.
But there is still something that I have to say to my people standing on the fertile trust at the entrance to the Palace of Justice. In the process of conquesting with proper place, we should not give grounds for accusations of non-residential actions. Let's not strive to quench our thirst for freedom, biting bitterness and hatred from the bowl.

We should always lead our fight against noble advantages and discipline. We should not afford that our creative protest degenerate into physical violence. We must strive to achieve majestic heights, responding to the physical strength of the power of the Spirit. The wonderful militancy, which took possession of the Negro Society, should not lead us to distrust by all the white people, since many of our white brothers realized, as evidenced by their presence here today, that their fate is closely connected with our fate and their freedom is inevitablely connected with Our freedom.

We can not go alone.
And starting the movement, we must swear that we will go ahead. We can't turn back. There are those who ask those who are dedicated to the protection of civil rights: "When do you calm down?" We will never calm down, while our bodies who have relieved from fatigue caused by long journeys will not be able to get the night in roadside motels and city hotels. We will not calm down until the main type of movement of the Negra remains moving from a small ghetto to a large one. We will not calm down until the Negro in Mississippi can vote, and the Negro in New York thinks that he has nothing to vote for. No, we have no reason to calm, and we will never calm down until justice starts to fall, like waters, and the righteousness is not like a powerful stream.

I do not forget that many of you arrived here, passing through great trials and suffering. Some of you arrived here with straight prison chambers. Some of you arrived from the districts, in which the storms of persecution and the storms of police cruelty were collected for your desire for freedom. You have become veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work, believe in the fact that undesuned suffering is swimming.
Return to Mississippi, return to Alabama, go back to Louisiana, return to the slums and ghetto of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation may change and change. Let's not suffer in despair valley.

I tell you today, my friends, that, despite the difficulties and disappointment, I have a dream. This is a dream, deeply rooted in the American Dream.
i have a dream that the day will come when our nation will come and live to the true meaning of your maiden: "We consider self-evident that all people are created equal."
i have a dream that you will come on the red hills of Georgia, when the sons of the former slaves and sons of former slave owners will be able to grasp together at the Brotherhood table.
i have a dream that the day will come, when even the state of Mississippi, a desert state exhausted from the heat of injustice and oppression will be turned into an oasis of freedom and justice.
i have a dream that the day will come when four of my children will live in a country where they will be judged by the color of their skin, but by what they represent themselves.
i have a dream today.
i have a dream that the day will come when in Alabama, the governor of which now declares interference in the internal affairs of the state and non-recognition of the action of the laws adopted by the Congress, will be created by the situation in which small black boys and girls will be able to take hands with small white boys And girls and go together, like brothers and sisters.
i have a dream today.
i have a dream that the day will come, when all the lowlands will be raised, all the hills and mountains will be devastated, uneven areas will be turned into plains, curved places will be straight, the greatness of the Lord will appear before us and all mortals will make sure that this.
Such is our hope. This is a faith with which I am returning to south.
With this faith we can cut down the stone of hope from the mountain of despair. With this faith we will be able to turn the unstasive voices of our people in the beautiful Symphony of the Brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, together to pray, fight together, go to prison together, to protect the freedom, knowing that one day we will be free.
It will be a day when all God's children can sing, putting a new meaning in these words: "My country, it's me, sweet earth of freedom, I'm sicking you. Earth, where my fathers died, the pride of Pilgrims, let the freedom rings with All mountain slopes. "
And if America has to become a great country, it should happen.
Let the freedom rings from the peaks of the amazing hills of New Hampshire!
Let freedom rings with the Mighty Mountains of New York!
Let freedom rings from the High Allegian Pennsylvania Mountains!
Let the freedom rings from the Snow-covered Rocky Mountains Colorado!
Let the freedom rings from the curved mountain peaks of California!
Let the freedom rings from the mountains of Lukaut in Tennessee!
Let the freedom rings from every hill and every Bugard Mississippi!
With every mountain slope, let the freedom ride!
When we allow freedom to ring when we allow it to ring each village and every village, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up the onset of the day when all God's children, black and white, Jews and pagans, Protestants and Catholics will be able to Take on the hands and stitching the words of the old black spiritual anthem: "FREE FINALLY! Free finally! Thanks to the Almighty Lord, we are free finally!"

"I Have a Dream." Martin Luther King speech August 28, 1963.

(in English)

I am Happy to Join Will Will Go Down in History As The Greatest Demonstration for Freedom in the History of Our Nation.

Five Score Years Ago, A Great American, in Whose Symbolic Shadow We Stand Today, 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 their Captivity.

But 100 Years Later, The Negro Still Is 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 Corners of American Society and Finds Himself An Exile in His Own Land. And So We "Ve Come Here Today to Dramatize a Shameful Condition.

IN A SENSE WE "VE 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, 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 - Yes, Black Men As Well As White Men - Would be Guaranteed the Unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit Of Happy.

It is Obvious Today Tod 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, a Check That 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. And SO WE "Ve Come to Cash This Check, A Check That Will Give Upon Demand The Riches of Freedom and Security of Justice. We Have Also Come to His Hallowed Spot to Remind America of the Fierce Urgency of Now. This is no time To Take the Trecilizing 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 Quicksands of Racual Injustice to the Solid Rock of Brotherhood. Now Is the Time to Make Justice A Reality for All of God "S Children.

IT Would be Fatal for the Nation to Overlook The Urgency of the Moment. 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 Hoped That 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 ALLOD 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 A 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 Always March Ahead. We cannot turn back. There Are Those WHO A ASKING THE DEVOTEES OF CIVIL RIGHTS, "WILL 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 CAN NEVER BODIES, HEAVY WITH THE FATIGUE OF TRAVEL, CANNOT GAIN LODGING IN THE MOTELS OF THE HIGHWAYS 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 OUR CHILDREN ARE STRIPPED OF THEIR SELFHOOD AND ROBBED OF THEIR DIGNITY by SIGNS STATING" FOR WHITES ONLY . "We Cannot Be Satisfied As Long As a Negro in Mississippi Cannot Vote and A Negro in New York Believe HE HAS NOTHING FOR WHICH TO Vote. No Will Not Be 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 Jail Cells. Some of You Have Come from Areas Where Your Quest for Freedom Left You Battered by 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 South Carolina, 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 Youday My Friends - So Even Though We Face The DiffiCulties of Today and Tomorrow, 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 Slave Owners 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 State Sweltering with the Heat of Injustice, 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 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 Down in Alabama, with its Vicious Racists, with its Governor Having His Lips Dripping with the Words of Interposition and Nullification - One Day Rights of Interposition and Nullification 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.

I Have a Dream That One Day Every Hill And Mountain Shall Be Made Low, The Rough Places Will Be Made Straight and The Gloa BE Made Shall Be Revealed and All Flesh SHALL SEE IT TOGETHER.

This Is Our Hope. This Is The Faith That I Go Back to the South With. 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, Together, Together, Together, Together, Together, Together, Together Up for Freedom Together, To Stand Up for Freedom Together, Knowing That We Will Be Free One Day.

This Will Be The Day, this Will Be The Day Will 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 Father" s 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. And 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 Snow-Capped Rockies of Colorado. Let Freedom Ring from the Curvaceous Slopes 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 Molehill of Mississippi - From Every Mountainside.

Let Freedom Ring. And WHEN THIS HAPPENS, AND WHEN WE ALLOW FREEDOM RING - WHEN WE LET IT RING FROM EVERY VILLAGE AND EVERY HAMLET, FROM EVERY CITY AND EVERY CITY, 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!"