Monday, August 28th marks the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

in Washington DC. This march was the backdrop for Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous

speech, I Have a Dream. The words he spoke 60 years ago are still relevant today. So,

I want to take a moment to honor Reverend King and to listen to his historic speech. Here

is I Have a Dream.

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 of withering injustice. It came as a joyous

daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But 100 years later, the Negro steel is not

free. 100 years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles

of segregation and the chains of discrimination 100 years later. The Negro lives on a lonely

island apoverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity 100 years later. The

Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile

in his own land. So, we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense,

we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic

wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were

signing a promise or a note to which every American was to fall out. This note was a promise

at all men. Yes, black men as well as white men would be guaranteed the unalienable rights

of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted

on this promise or a note in so far as her citizens of color or concern. Instead of honoring

this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which

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