LAD #26

In March 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech.  He began the speech by saying that 100 years ago Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves.  But he says 100 years later the negro is still not free.  He said the Declaration of Independence gave all men "Unalienable rights" and that this should include black men with the white.  He said that there is no time for gradualism.  He said "now" is the time for brotherhood and equality.  He says that the negro will not rest until he is granted full equality to whites.  He continues to say that most white people are not bad, and that many recognize that their futures and freedoms are tied up with those of the blacks.  He then goes on a string of "I have a dream"s saying that they are for blacks and whites to eat dinner together, for his children to live in a world where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, that Alabama will be integrated and free of racial tensions, and that all those things will happen now, not gradually or in a few years, but now.  He finishes by saying to let freedom ring and let all God's children join hands and sing and dance.