I Have A Dream Speech Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Luther, Andrew Young, Simon Sinek, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Samuel Francis Smith and many others.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her 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 ‘insufficient funds.’
We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
When the architects of our republic 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 is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.’
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.
The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. 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 plane of dignity and discipline.
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
