I Have A Dream Speech Quotations

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city.

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'