ousness like amighty stream. I am not unmindful that some of you havecome here out of your trials and tribulations. Some of youhave come from areas where your quest for freedom left youbattered by storms of persecutions and staggered by thewinds of police brutality. You have been the veterans ofcreative suffering. Continue to work with the faith thatunearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, goback to Alabama, go back to South Carolina go back toGeorgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums andghettos of our modern cities, knowing that somehow thissituation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in thevalley of dispair. I say to you, my friends, we have thedifficulties of today and tommorrow. I still have a dream. It isa dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have adream that one day this nation will rise up and live out thetrue meaning of its creed. We hold thise truths to beself-evident that all men are created equal. I have a dreamthat one day out in the red hills of Georgia the sons of formerslaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sitdown together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dreamthat one day even the state of Mississippi, a state swelteringwith the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasisof freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four littlechildren will one day live in a nation where they will not bejudged by the color of their skin but by their character. Ihave a dream today. I have a dream that one day down inAlabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having hislips dripping with the words of interpostion and nullification;that one day right down in Alabama little black boys andblack girls will be able to join hands with little white boysand white girls as s)fYers and brothers. I have a dreamtoday. I have a dream that one day every valley shall beengulfed, every hill shall be exalted and every mountain shallbe made low, the rough places will be...
