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I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficultiesand frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is adream deeply rooted in the American dream.I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and liveout the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to beself-evident: that all men are created equal.”I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sonsof former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be ableto sit down together at a table of brotherhood.I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, adesert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression,will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.I have a dream that my four children will one day live in anation where they will not be judged by the color of their skinbut by the content of their character.I have a dream today.I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whosegovernor’s lips are presently dripping with the words ofinterposition and nullification, will be transformed into asituation where little black boys and black girls will be ableto join hands with little white boys and white girls and walktogether as sisters and brothers.And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of NewHampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains ofNew York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Allegheniesof Pennsylvania!Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain ofGeorgia!Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi.From every mountainside, let freedom ring.When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every villageand every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be ableto speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men andwhite men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, willbe able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negrospiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we arefree at last!”I have a dream today.I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, everyhill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will bemade plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, andthe glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see ittogether.This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to theSouth. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountainof despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able totransform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautifulsymphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able towork together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go tojail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that wewill be free one day.This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able tosing with a new meaning, “My country, ‘tis of thee, sweet landof liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of thepilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”
Inventors of America“The Englishmen who landed in Virginia in 1607, and on thebleaker shores of Massachusetts thirteen years later, did notbegin a new history, but continued a history which had begunmany centuries before.”Lord James Bryce, The Study of American History“Men, like plants cannot be rooted from their native soil andset again in some distant land without undergoing profoundchanges... In like manner the institutions, manners, morals,religious beliefs, and thoughts of the European settlersunderwent a change in the soil of America.”Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, The First AmericansMost of the big shore places were closed now and there werehardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboatacross the Sound. And as the moon rose higher the inessentialhouses began to melt away until gradually I became aware ofthe old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, thetrees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once panderedin whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for atransitory enchanted moment man must have held his breathin the presence of this continent, compelled into an aestheticcontemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to facefor the last time in history with something commensurate tohis capacity for wonder.And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, Ithought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the greenlight at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way tothis blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close thathe could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it wasalready behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyondthe city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled onunder one night.Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future thatyear by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s nomatter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our armsfarther. . . . And one fine morning— So we beat on, boatsagainst the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great GatsbyI mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud; for it is insuch little retired … valleys… that population, manners, andcustoms, remain fixed; while the great torrent of migration andimprovement, which is making such incessant change in otherparts of this restless country, sweeps by them unobserved. Theyare little nooks of still water which border a rapid stream…Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy HollowThe pastoral ideal it has been used to define the meaning ofAmerica ever since the age of discovery, and it has not yet lostits hold upon the native imagination. The reason is dear enough.The ruling motive of the good shepherd, leading figure of theclassic, Virgilian mode, was to withdraw from the great worldand begin a new life in a fresh, green landscape. And now herewas a virgin continent! Inevitably the European mind wasdazzled by the prospect. With an unspoiled hemisphere inview it seemed that mankind actually might realize what hadbeen thought a poetic fantasy. Soon the dream of a retreatto an oasis of harmony and joy was removed from its traditionalliterary context. It was embodied in various utopian schemesfor making America the site of a new beginning for Westernsociety. In both forms —one literary and the other in essencepolitical — the ideal has figured in the American view of lifewhich is, in the widest sense, the subject of this book.Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden, Technology and thePastoral Ideal in AmericaFreedom, too, the long-sought, we still seek, -- the freedomof life and limb, the freedom to work and think, the freedomto love and aspire Work, culture, liberty, all these we need,not singly but together, not successively but together eachgrowing and aiding each, and all striving toward that vasterideal that swims before the Negro people, the ideal of humanbrotherhood, gained through the unifying ideal of Race; theideal of fostering and developing the traits and talents of theNegro, not in opposition to or contempt for other races, butrather in large conformity to the greater ideals of the AmericanRepublic, in order that some day on American soil two worldracesmay have each to each those characteristics both so sadlylack We the darker ones come even now not altogether emptyhanded:there are to-day no truer exponents of the pure humanspirit of the Declaration of Independence than the AmericanNegroes; there is no true American music but the wild sweet fieldston american reader volume i – fall 2007
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Sojorner Truth: Ain’t I A Woman?S
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