Do you have a dream

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Do you have a dream?
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was a kid from the South
who spurred the start of a revolution.
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In 1955 he organized the Montgomery Alabama bus
boycott, launching the Civil Rights movement in
America.
He was 27 years old.
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In 1963 youth became involved in peaceful
protests with King in Birmingham, Alabama.
Two thousand children and youth skipped school t
o protest racial segregation.
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They were met with police violence, including
fire hoses and police dog attacks.
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Masses of kids were arrested, filling
Birminghams jails.
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As a result, King organized a march of 200,000
whites and blacks in Washington, D.C.
It was the largest civil rights demonstration in
U.S. history.
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There he delivered the famous I have a dream
speech.
He was 34 years old.
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Though he was often a victim of violence, King
determined never to use violence as the answer to
conflict.
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He won the Nobel Peace prize in 1964 for his
nonviolent efforts to end the injustices of
segregation.
He was 35 years old.
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King believed It is a cruel jest to say to a bo
otless man that he should lift himself by his own
bootstraps. It is even worse to tell a man to
lift himself by his own bootstraps when somebody
is standing on the boot.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed in
Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.
Despite his work towards peace, violence claimed
his life.
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But he had begun a revolution that turned a
nation upside down. He was 39 years old when
he died.

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I say to you today, even though we face the
difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have
a dream.
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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of
Georgia sons of former slaves and the sons of
former slave-owners will be able to sit down
together at the table of brotherhood.
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I have a dream that my four little children will
one day live in a nation where they will not be
judged by the color of their skin but by the
content of their character.
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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.
(Isaiah 404-5)
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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 we will be free one day.
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Now is the time to make justice a reality for
all of God's children.
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No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be
satisfied until justice rolls down like waters,
and righteousness like a mighty stream."
(Amos 524)
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This will be the day when all of Gods children
will be able to sing with new meaning, let
freedom ring.
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When we allow freedom to ring when we let it
ring from every city and every hamlet, from every
state and every city
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we will be able to speed up that day when all
of Gods children, black men and white men, Je
ws and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, wi
ll be able to join hands and sing in the words of
the old Negro spiritual
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Free at last, Free at last, Great God Almight
y,
We are free at last.
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King made his famous I have a dream speech when
he was 34 years old.

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Youre probably a lot younger than 34 now.
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At one time, Martin Luther King, Jr. was your ag
e.

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And he had a dream.
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Today, what Kingdom dreams are being born in you
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