"I have the pleasure to present to you Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted. I have a dream that every hill and mountain shall be made low. I have a dream my children will not be judged by the color of their skin. This is our hope. I have a dream the rough places will be made plain. I have a dream the crooked places will be made straight. That is something that I must say we cannot turn back. I have a dream today. That for Americans to be a great nation this must come true.
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, 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:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted. I have a dream that every hill and mountain shall be made low. I have a dream my children will not be judged by the color of their skin. This is our hope. I have a dream the rough places will be made plain. I have a dream the crooked places will be made straight. That is something that I must say we cannot turn back. I have a dream today.
This is how Martin Luther King Jr. would sound if he sang his famous I Have A Dream speech.
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