![]() So we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. One hundred years later the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in 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 badly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. But 100 years later the Negro still is not free. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. This momentous decree is a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. Five score years ago a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today 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. Martin Luther King at the “March on Washington” on August 28, 1963: Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' Speech in Its Entirety Close
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