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\\f0\\fs26 \\cf0 \\cb2 My friend, my friend, my friend\\

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\\cf0 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 \\ live out the true meaning of its creed: \\

\\ We hold these truths to be self-evident: \\

that all men are created equal.\\ [clapping]\\

\\ 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, \\

\\ sweltering with the heat of oppression, \\

\\ be transformed into an oasis of freedom and

justice.\\ I have a dream \\

\\ that my four little children \\

\\ 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.\\

I have a dream today.\\ [clapping]\\

\\ 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.\\ I have a dream today.\\

[clapping]\\ \\

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, \\

\\ every hill and mountain shall be made low,

the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and

the glory of the Lord 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, \\

to pray together, \\ to struggle together, \\

to go to jail 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 when all of God's children \\

\\ will be able to sing with a new meaning, \\

My country, 'tis \\ sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. \\

\\ Land where my fathers 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. \\

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 snowcapped 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, \\ \\

when we allow freedom to 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!\\

[clapping]\\ [music]\\

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