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Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

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!

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.

With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

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!

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!

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.