This document contains Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "I Have a Dream" speech delivered at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. In the speech, King envisions a future where racial inequality and discrimination have ended in America, and where people of all races can live together in harmony. He dreams that one day African Americans will no longer face injustice and racism, and will enjoy full equality, freedom and brotherhood. King's powerful speech called for an end to racism and fulfillment of the promise of equality in the Declaration of Independence.

3. Five score years ago
, in
whose symbolic shadow
we stand today,
.

4. It came as a
to the long
night of .

5. President Abraham Lincoln
issued the Emancipation
Proclamation on
The proclamation declared
"that all persons held as
slaves" within the
rebellious states "are, and
henceforward shall be
free."

6. . One
hundred years later,
by the
and the

7. In a sense we've come to our nation's
Capital to cash a check. When the
architects of our republic wrote the
magnificent words of
they were
to which every
American was to fall heir.

8. , ,
would be
guaranteed the

9. Instead of honoring this
sacred obligation,
; a check which has
come back marked
" ."

10. But we
. We
in the
great
of this
nation.

11. to make
real the
Now is the
time to
and
to the

12. There is something that I
must say.
In the process of gaining
our rightful place we
must
.

13. We must

14. The marvelous new
militancy which has
engulfed the Negro
community
…

15. …for many of
as evidenced by
their presence here
today,

16. There are those who are
asking the devotees of
civil rights,

17. We can
as long as the Negro is
the

18. We can
as long as our children
are
by signs
stating " ."

19. We as
long as a
and

20. No, no, we are not
satisfied, and
and
.

21. I say to you today, my
friends, so
of
today and tomorrow,

22. I have a dream that one
day this nation will rise up
and live out the true
meaning of its creed:

23. I have a dream that one
day on the red hills of
and the
will be able to sit
down together at the
table of brotherhood.

24. I have a dream that one
day even the state of
a state
, will be

25. I have a dream that my
four little children will
one day
of
their skin
.

26. I have a dream that one day
,
and
, and all
flesh shall see it together.

27. And when this happens, and when we
allow freedom 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,