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I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration

for freedom in the history of our nation five score years ago, a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the

Emancipation Proclamation.

This momentous decree came

as a great beacon light of hope

to millions of Negro slaves

who had been seared in the flames

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