My Dream
A dream is
a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain
stages of sleep. The people of our country are still not free rather sadly crippled
by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. They live on a
lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.
Even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a
dream deeply rooted in the Bengali dream that one day this nation will rise up
and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be
self-evident; that all men are created equal. One day the sons of former slaves
and slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
The heat of injustice and oppression will be transformed into an oasis of
freedom and justice. Our children will live in a nation where they will not be
judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. 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.
We will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a
beautiful symphony of brotherhood. Then 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. And if Bangladesh is to
be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the North to
South and from East to West, from every hill, mountainside and molehill of
Bangladesh. And when this happens, we will be able to speed up that day
when all of God’s creation, poor men and rich men, will be able to join hands
and sing in the words of the human spiritual.
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