made plains and thecrooked places will be made straight and the glory of theLord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. Thisis our hope. This is the faith that I will go back to the Southwith. With this faith we will be able to hew out of themountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we willbe able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into abeautiful symphomy of brotherhood. With this faith we willbe able to work together, to pray together, to struggletogether, to go to jail together, to climb up for freedomtogether, knowing that we will be free one day. This will bethe day when all of God's children will be able to sing withnew meaning "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty,of thee I sing. Land where my father's died, land of thePilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!"And if America is to be a great nation, this must becometrue. So let freedom ring from the hilltops of NewHampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains ofNew York. Let freedom ring from the heighteningAlleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from thesnow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring fromthe curvacious slopes of California. But not only that, letfreedom, ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedomring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi and everymountainside. When we let freedom ring, when we let it ringfrom every tenement and every hamlet, from every state andevery city, we will be able to speed up that day when all ofGod's children, black men and white men, Jews andGentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to joinhands and sing in the words of the old spiritual, "Free at last,free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."...
