放飞梦想英语演讲稿范文

放飞梦想英语演讲稿范文 <br /> i am happy to join with you today in what will go down in <br />history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the <br />history of our nation. <br /> five score years ago, a great american, in whose symbolic <br />shadow we stand today, signed the emancipation proclamation. <br />this momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to <br />millions of negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of <br />withering injustice. it came as a joyous daybreak to end the <br />long night of their captivity. <br /> but one hundred years later, the negro still is not free. <br />one hundred years later, the life of the negro is still sadly <br />crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of <br />discrimination. one hundred years later, the negro lives on a <br />lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material <br />prosperity. one hundred years later, the negro is still <br />languished in the corners of american society and finds himself <br />an exile in his own land. and so weve come here today to <br />dramatize a shameful condition. <br /> in a sense weve come to our nations capital to cash a check. <br />when the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words <br />of the constitution and the declaration of independence, they <br />were signing a promissory note to which every american was to <br />fall heir. this note was a promise that all men, yes, black men <br />as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights <br />of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. it is obvious <br />today that america has defaulted on this promissory note, <br />insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. instead of <br />honoring this sacred obligation, america has given the negro <br />people a bad check, a check which has come back marked <br />insufficient funds.