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 corners 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. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. Even though I am Not black I still feel that we must reconize how importantBlack people are they are NO diffrent from me and you!įive score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
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