So we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.īut one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free one hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination 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 Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. 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. 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.įive score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Während einer großen Demonstration zum Anlass der einhundertjährigen Wiederkehr der Emancipation Proclamation Lincolns, sprach Martin Luther King, Jr., von dem Traum, den er für eine bessere Zukunft der USA ohne Rassenschranken habe. Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream" Speech, August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream", 1963 Start > Kalter Krieg und Liberaler Konsens > Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream", 1963
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