Let us therefore continue our triumphant march to the realization of the American dream.

I have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day, right down in Georgia and Mississippi and Alabama, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to live together as brothers.

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

This is one of the most important days, in my opinion, in American history. It's our declaration of economic independence.

To end poverty, to extirpate prejudice, to free a tormented conscience, to make a tomorrow of justice, fair play, and creativity-all these are worthy of the American ideal.

The American people are infected with racism-that is the peril. Paradoxically, they are also infected with democratic ideals-that is the hope.