I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history asthe greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow westand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentousdecree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaveswho had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as ajoyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundredyears later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by themanacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundredyears later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midstof a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, theNegro is still languished in the corners of American society and findshimself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today todramatize a shameful condition……
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