Martin Luther King
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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I'm happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration full freedom in the history of our nation five school years ago. A great American in whose symbolic shadows we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This moment is to creak cane as a great beacon, a lot of hope for millions of ***** 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 100 years later, the Negroes still is not free. 100 years later, the life of the ***** is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. 100 years later, the ***** lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. 100 years later, the ***** was languished by the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. So we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense, we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our public 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. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as White Man would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note in so far as citizens of color are concerned, Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the ***** people a bad check. A check which has come back marked insufficient funds. But we refused to believe that the Bank of Justice has been bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we've come to cash this check a check that will give us upon demand the ridges of freedom and the security of justice. It's