This
momentous decree [the Emancipation Declaration, which ended slavery]
came as a great _________ of hope to millions of Negro slaves...
It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long _______ of captivity.
One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled
by the _________ of segregation and the _________ of discrimination ...
... the Negro lives on a lonely _________ of _________ in the middle of
a vast ocean of material prosperity.
[The
Constitution + Declaration of Independence = a check which America has
failed to honour, a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds'
...] But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is _________
... So we have come to _________ this check.
Now
is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to
the _______ _______ of _________. Now is the time to open the
_________ of _________ to all of God's children. Now is the time
to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the _________
_________ of brotherhood.
The
_________ of revolt will continue to shake the _________ of our nation
until the bright day of justice emerges.
But
there is something I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold
which leads into the _________ of justice. Let us not satisfy our
thirst for freedom by _________ _____ _____ _______ of
bitterness and hatred.
I have
a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering
with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an
_________ of _________ and _________.
With
this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation
into a beautiful _________ of brotherhood.
Frankie Meehan
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