Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern , knowing that somehow this situation can and be changed. Let us not wallow in the of despair.
I say to you today, my friends... so even though we face the of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed : "We hold these truths to be self-evident : that all men created equal." I have a dream that one day, on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of slaveowners will be to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, be transformed into an oasis of and justice. I have a dream that my little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their . I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls sisters and brothers. I have a dream today".