![]() ![]() When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence ( Yeah), they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. ( Yes, yes) And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. One hundred years later ( My Lord), the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. ![]() ( Hmm) One hundred years later ( All right), the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. ( My Lord, Yeah) One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. ( Hmm)īut one hundred years later ( All right), the Negro still is not free. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. ![]() This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves ( Yeah) who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. įive score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. ![]()
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