A WORK STILL IN PROGRESS

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MLK Jr. ON FREEDOM



"...let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New

Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of
Pennsylvania.

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

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that:

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

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! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

We, too, have a dream, and the dream of Freedom must not die, nor its advocates

be intimidated into silence.