TELEWORKING,
(Copyright 1963, M.~RTIN JR.)
(Copyright 1963, M.~RTIN JR.)
Speech by the Rev. MARTIN LUTHER KING
At the "March ~n Washington
At the "March ~n Washington
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.
in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in
the history of our nation.
Five score years ago a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation
Proclamation. This momentous degree is a great W n
light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been
seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a
joyous day break to end the long night of their captivity.
But 100 years later the Negro still is nok free. One hundred yearn later the life of t,he Negro is still badly
crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of
discrimination. One hundred gears later the Negro lives
on a lonely island of povedp in the mjidst d a vast ocean of matr.ria1 prosperity. Ow hundred years later the
Negro is still languished ill the corners of American
=ie$ and finds himself in exile in his m lad. So
wu'vc come ho1.c. today to (1mma.tize a shameful condition
Proclamation. This momentous degree is a great W n
light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been
seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a
joyous day break to end the long night of their captivity.
But 100 years later the Negro still is nok free. One hundred yearn later the life of t,he Negro is still badly
crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of
discrimination. One hundred gears later the Negro lives
on a lonely island of povedp in the mjidst d a vast ocean of matr.ria1 prosperity. Ow hundred years later the
Negro is still languished ill the corners of American
=ie$ and finds himself in exile in his m lad. So
wu'vc come ho1.c. today to (1mma.tize a shameful condition
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