This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. One hundred years later the Negro is still languishing in the comers of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.īut one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, 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. at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963, remains his most memorable oration. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech given on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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