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ou gotta keep it on the positive...I feel nauseated from...The definition of top b...It's ill the my vocabulary...The one a two annihilat...And this verse that I'm kickin' some migh...We gotta keep it on the positive (positive....We must keep it on the positive (positive....e God once gave you the meaning of life and...You've enlisted in the devil's books...Livin' the life of crooks and ...Livin' the life that's plush a...I keep myself sober s...If the devil cannot see me...I ain't talking about the white man, the black man or a Jew ...Cause the devil can exist in ...I hope you come and f...(keep it on the positive)...I hope you find some ...(keep it on the positive)...P-o-s-I-t-I-v-I-t-y...P-o-s-I-t-I-v-I-t-y...rently located over the Los Angeles scene...But when I see they mind they ...A society choose the elevator...ough to perpetrate, I talk to you later...I'm sealed with mind,...We are the product of our own ...I sing the song from the soul...Let it rise from the tone...Let it become you...Then you become it...Once you become it everything will ...We are the product of our own ...I sing the song from the soul...Let it rise from the tone...Let it become you...Then you become it...Once you become it everything will ...We are the product of our on e...I sing the song from the soul...Let it rise from the tone...Let it become you...Then you become it...Once you become it everything will ...cs © TUONO MUSIC % SOUTH HUDSON MUSIC , BMG SAPHIRE SONGS OBO NAWASHA NETWORKS PUBLISHING , BMG SAPHIRE SONGS OBO WILL.I.AM. MUSIC INC.

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lical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd ...e, it's a battle of the mind ...lical reaction from the prisoners of the blind ...e, it's a battle of the mind ..., talk about paying the ultimate price ...d he's on a road to become a felon ...d his thing and was the king of the ring, undisputed ...For him to make the system look stupid,... rather look you in the face and shoot it ... sweat leaking from the outline of your sol...Don't understand the point that you at ...Or how the hell you came to it... when they told him the charge it kind of b...Murder in the first for the champ, we on that a...Could y'all stand the weather? ...ll me that you know the pain ...Could ya'll stand the weather? ...Nobody knows the troubles seen ...'What can become of kings and young ...The cops, y'all know wh... days, stay up half the night ...What he loved on the outside world, deta...You know the cards Blacks get dealt by the system ...This is the story of a champion...The story left me wipin...Could y'all stand the weather? ...ll me that you know the pain ...Could you stand the weather? ...Yo, yo I can't even explain the pain ...Yes, I am the inescapable, the irresistible, ...The unnegotiable, the unchallenged [who d...I am time ...I scroll in measurements, control the elements, ...I hold the evidence, I tell the story [say what?] ...I am time ...I know no prejudice, I bare no sentiments ...alth or settlement, I move forward [who y...I am time ...Plaintively, I wait to see what hi...ll never die inside the sake of me ...Angel's scribe the page for me, ...full account of all the names for me ...Could you stand the weather? ...I can't even explain the pain ...Yo, can't explain the pain with words, kn...The clouds clashed and the heaven's gave birth...aced it in a man on the day he was born ...d for manslaughter, the Hurricane Carter ri...From out the south water, like torrent...In the ring no opponent es...You can't believe the world we live in's ...All I see is more proof, ...Drive him to the point where the mind work mechanica...lical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd ...e, it's a battle of the mind ...lical reaction from the prisoners of the blind ...e, it's a battle of the mind ...Could you stand the weather? ...I can't even explain the pain, know'm saying...Could you stand the weather? ...ng me that you know the pain ...lical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd ...e, it's a battle of the mind ...lical reaction from the prisoners of the blind ...e, it's a battle of the mind

I spent the winter on the verge of a total br...I felt the darkness of the black metal bands...I didn't burn down an...My mind rejects the frequency...The TV man is too loud...You turn the dial, I'll try and smile...We will escape from the south to the west side...My mind rejects the frequency...I spent the winter with my nose...Because it had become vile to its creator...I lay praying to a sa...My mind rejects the frequency...The TV man is too loud...You turn the dial, I'll try and smile...We will escape from the south to the west side...My mind rejects the frequency...I am older now, I see the way you operate...My mind rejects the frequency...The TV man is too loud...You turn the dial, I'll try and smile...We will escape from the south to the west side...My mind rejects the frequency

See, I can kinda recall a ...And my hair - I tried it all I even went flat...And I hit the barber shop real qu...Then I couldnt get no job...Then I thought about my dogs from the block...Was it the hair that got me th...I hate to say it but ...ess didnt come till I cut it all off...Little girl with the press and curl...Age eight, I got a Jheri curl...Thirteen, and I got a relaxer...I was a source of so ...I went on and did what I had to do...To become the woman that I am inside...I looked in the mirror for the first time and saw ...I am not my hair...I am not this skin...I am not your expectatio...I am not my hair...I am not this skin...I am the soul that lives wit...At the turn of the century...shave it off like a South African beauty... lose, postin' with the wave cap...And the cops wanna harass 'cause I got waves...Yes, India, I feel ya, girl...w go ahead, talk to the rest of the world 'cause......Does the way I wear my hair make m...Does the way I wear my hair make m...Does the way I wear my hair determ...I am expressing my creat...Singing out to the whole wide world li

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I been a menace to so...Still refused to become a legitimate citize...But here I am anyway ...I might be back to sl...Well I'll be--back ...Wit' see-Rod and the squad ...gh and say whatever the fuck they feel like...And I'm still outbustin' ...I don't believe that ...I'm the king 'cause I said it ...And I mean that shit ...I set the city in fire ...I don't believe that ...I'm the king 'cause I said it ...And I mean that shit ...Hey, what's the big deal about him?...I set the city on fire ...And I'm one of 'em ...The other four, you kno...I'm the best thing left blowin' breath on the mic ...The king of the south ...Match the price ...Before I had a deal ...I was still butt nake...this, like keeping' the Lord's promise ...The truth nigga ...I'm a legend in my ow...So why I'm runnin' now ...And I ain't never run bef...Stoppin' the show ...r owe 'em, droppin' the hoes ... just keep watchin' the door ..., watch 'em drop to the floor ...'ll be there buyin' the hoes ...Before the drama unfolds ...Hoppin' back in the Brougham ...I'm sorry I ain't hearin' you o...The squad pumpin' Fe in...T-I-P, Grand Hustle, Pi...Sanchez on the beat, dig this man ...I'ma keep it always p...I'm stayin' down ...Nigga I got houses, I got blow, I got dro ...Nigga I got hoes, nigga I got property nigga ...King of da God damn south

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...undred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American... 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 promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that 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 promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad ...use to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice...o remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justic... would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justi...e is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of...The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community mus... walk, we must make the pledge that we shal...hose who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot b...I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos o...et us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, m...even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. ...I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its...I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhoo...I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression,...I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their ch...I have a dream today!...I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposi...I have a dream today!...I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and 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 revea...r hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with. ... able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords o...And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God...of liberty, of thee I sing. ...thers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, ...t nation, this must become true. ...t freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops...t freedom ring from the mighty mountains of...t freedom ring from the heightening Alleghe...t freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies...t freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes o...n hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual

Down south. In the south, they used to...she'd burn the whole goddamn place...I'm over past that ...Coming into the new millenium, we c...I got off the 2 train in Brooklyn... help this woman up the stairs before I get to steppin' ...ads that peeked out the back ...Livin' a century, the strenght of her mem... she'd be bitter in the twilight ... cuz she done sseen the circle of life yo ...Back in the days of slaves she ...She gotta dead that the head wrap is her re...This is the back of the masters' whip used ... enough to take all the pain, that's been ...It to the love for her childr...Woman singing in the background ...I know a girl with a name as beautiful as the rain ...Her face is the same but she suffer...Chasin' the real brothers away like she confused in the brain ...For the receipt to find out...Seeing the world through very ...That keep her up to the break of light a lo...called her Safronia the unwanted seed ...enage lovers sit on the stoops up in Harlem...Holdin' hands under the Apollo marquis drea...Since they was born the streets is watchin'... when children hide the fact that they preg...How will I feed this baby? ...How will I survive, how will t...At 14 the baby hit the same streets they b...The children of the enslaved, they grow...They bodies become adult ...While they keepin' the thoughts of a child...in', workin' out on the block ...Up on the phone, talkin' abou...my skin is tan like the front of your hand)...lright whatever way I want to fix it, ...(And when I fix my lips my mout...n't be shy, tonight I wanna be your lady)...etter quit with all the question, sugar who's little girl am I) ...(Why I'm yours if you got ...ou better stop with the compliments we runn...Harlem's from where I came, don't worry a... + Woman singing in the background ...Left the plantation when she...her babies than let the master get to 'em, ...She on the run up north to get...The promise of eternal ...She swears the next baby she'll ha...(Like the love I give my babies when the rainbow's enuff,) ...(I'll kill the first muthafucka that mess with me, I never bluff) ...ning with barefeet, I ain't got nothin' b...(Freedom is the ultimate goal, ...d death is small on the whole, in many ways...'cuz the only parents God ga...And it crippled me, I got the destiny of a casual...(But I live through my babies and I change my reality) ...(Maybe one day I'll ride back to Geo...re call me Peaches, I guess that's my nam

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...undred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American... 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 promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that 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 promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad ...use to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice...o remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justic... would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justi...e is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of...The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community mus... walk, we must make the pledge that we shal...hose who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot b...I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos o...et us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, m...even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream....I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its...I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhoo...I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression,...I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their ch...I have a dream today!...I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposi...I have a dream today!...I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and 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 revea...r hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.... able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords o...And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God...of liberty, of thee I sing. ...thers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, ...t nation, this must become true....t freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops...t freedom ring from the mighty mountains of...t freedom ring from the heightening Alleghe...t freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies...t freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes o...n hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual

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...undred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American... 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 promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that 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 promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad ...use to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice...o remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justic... would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justi...e is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of...The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community mus... walk, we must make the pledge that we shal...hose who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot b...I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos o...et us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, m...even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. ...I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its...I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhoo...I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression,...I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their ch...I have a dream today!...I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposi...I have a dream today!...I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and 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 revea...r hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with. ... able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords o...And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God...of liberty, of thee I sing. ...thers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, ...t nation, this must become true. ...t freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops...t freedom ring from the mighty mountains of...t freedom ring from the heightening Alleghe...t freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies...t freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes o...n hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual

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...undred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American... 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 promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that 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 promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad ...use to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice...o remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justic... would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justi...e is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of...The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community mus... walk, we must make the pledge that we shal...hose who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot b...I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos o...et us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, m...even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. ...I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its...I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhoo...I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression,...I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their ch...I have a dream today!...I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposi...I have a dream today!...I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and 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 revea...r hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with. ... able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords o...And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God...of liberty, of thee I sing. ...thers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, ...t nation, this must become true. ...t freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops...t freedom ring from the mighty mountains of...t freedom ring from the heightening Alleghe...t freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies...t freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes o...n hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual

And all I see is birds migrat...When you fly above the sea ...The lamp stands in a ge...The silence rules, the evening grows ...And the moon is far below ...In my heart I hear it stamp ...What will become of you ...Not one tear I have in me ...I am numb to my memory ...I'll believe than tha...First I felt bitter, I made amends ...But I see you in a new li...So I'll believe than tha...ond you're a loser, I spit on pretence ...And I begin to wonder, and I begin to understand