ENGLISH SPEECH | MARTIN LUTHER KING: I Have a Dream (English Subtitles)

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.

Five score years ago a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the

Emancipation Proclamation.

This momentous decree came as a great beckoning 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 their captivity.

But one hundred years later 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 comers of American society

and finds himself in exile in his own land.

We all have come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now.