Joke

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,

every hill and mountain shall be made low,

the rough places will be made plain,

and the crooked places will be made straight,

and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,

and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope.

This is the faith with which I return to the South.

With this faith we will be able to hew out

of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

With this faith we will be able to transform

the jangling discords of our nation

into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

With this faith we will be able to work together,

to pray together, to struggle together,

to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together,

knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God's children

will be able to sing with a new meaning,

"My country, 'tis of thee,

sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died,

land of the pilgrim's pride,

from every mountainside,

let freedom ring."

And if America is to be a great nation

this must become true.

So let freedom ring from the prodigious

hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty

mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening

Alleghenies of 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 of Georgia!

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 village

and every hamlet, from every state and every city,

we will be able to speed up that day

when all of God's children,

black men and white men,

Jews and Gentiles,

Protestants and Catholics,

will be able to join hands and sing

in the words of the old Negro spiritual,

"Free at last! free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

(Excerpts from the speech, "I Have A Dream", by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)