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. In a sense we've come to our nations capital to cash a check. And so weve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. 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 life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. ![]() It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.īut one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. 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. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.įive score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. ▲ Main Article ▲ Primary Sources (1 ) Martin Luther King, speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (28th August, 1963)
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