With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plains, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all the flesh shall see it together. 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 little white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
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 thal all men are created equal". It is a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream. Raveling says that after the march he placed the speech inside a copy of Harry S Truman's memoirs (autographed by Truman with a personal inscription to Raveling, who met Truman on a trip to Missouri with a basketball all-star team).I say to you today, my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. Raveling says that after handing over the speech, King was about to say something to him when he was interrupted by a rabbi who congratulated him. Raveling himself has marked, with a line and an asterisk, the point where King departed from his text.)Īfter he finished - "Thank God almighty, we are free at last!'' - King pivoted left on the podium, taking his papers off the lectern in his right hand.
(Raveling's copy, accordingly, does not include that part of the speech. King's speech became known as "I Have a Dream'' after he extemporaneously inserted the inspirational passage into his prepared speech. They returned the next morning and were given credentials and white caps. Raveling says on the night before the march he and a friend were asked by a march organizer to be volunteer security marshals.
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