His 17-minute "I Have a Dream" speech was delivered on Aug. 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. It was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement.
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 my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
And when this happens, when we allow 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 of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
"Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride."
Pride (In the Name of Love)
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