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Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand

signed the Emancipation Proclamation. 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. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long

night of captivity.

But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still 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 languishing in the corners of American society and finds

himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.

In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check.

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. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life,

liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar

as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred

obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back

marked «insufficient funds."But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice

is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the

great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check

-- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security

of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the

fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off

or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. 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 open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s

children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial

injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the

Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating

autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end,

but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and

will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until

the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will

continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice

emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm

threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our

rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and

hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and

discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical

violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting

physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed

the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people,

for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today,

have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their

freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead.

We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking

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