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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 four years ago, a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed to the emancipation proclamation. This momentous decree came as the great beacon light of hope for 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 100 years later, the Negro still is not free. 100 years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. 100 years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast portion of material prosperity. 100 years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we've come here today to dramatize the shameful condition. Innocence, we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promise or a note to whichever the American was to fall out. There's no promise at all, men. Yes, black men as well as white men. Would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promise or a note in so far as our citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check. A check which has come back marked insufficiently. But we refuse to believe that the Bank of Justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that our insufficient funds and the great folks of opportunity of this nation. So we've come to cash this check. A check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of the nation. But that is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold with leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful faith, we must not be in the right place. We must not be in the right place. We must not be in the right place. We must not be in the right place. In the process of gaining our rightful faith, we must not be guilty of wrong to these. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high clean of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force and so forth. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distress of all white people. For many of our white brothers has evidenced by their presence here today have come to realize that that destiny is part of our destiny. There comes to realize that freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights. When will you be satisfied? We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro as the victim of the unseekable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied. As long as our body is heavy with the fatigue of travel, we cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the city. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a small achetal to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by sign stating for white on that. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro in Mississippi cannot go and the Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to go. No! No! No! We are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

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