(...) 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 and ghettos of our northern cities knowing that this situation can and will be transformed. Let us not in the valley of .
I say to you today, my friends... so we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the of its : "We hold these to be : that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red of Georgia the sons of slaves and the sons of former will be able to sit down together at a table of . I have a dream that one day the state of Mississippi, a state with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their but by the content of their . I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its racists, with its governor having his with the words of interposition and , 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 as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today".