[1] I am happy to join ........ you today in
what will go down in history as the greatest
demonstration for freedom in the history of
our nation.
[5] In the process ........ gaining our rightful
place we must not be guilty of wrongful
deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for
freedom ........ drinking from the cup of
bitterness and hatred. We must forever
[10] conduct our struggle on the high plane of
dignity and discipline. We must not allow our
creative protest to degenerate into physical
violence. The marvelous new militancy which
has engulfed the Negro community must not
[15] lead us to distrust of all white people, for
many of our white brothers, as evidenced by
their presence here today, have come to
realize that their destiny is tied up with our
destiny and their freedom is inextricably
[20] bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.
I have a dream that one day this nation
will rise up and live out the true meaning of
its creed: "We hold these truths to be selfevident:
that all men are created equal." I
[25] 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 character.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go
[30] back to the South with. When we allow
freedom to ring, when we let it ring from
every state and every city, we will speed up that
day when all of God's children, black men and
white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and
[35] Catholics, will join hands and sing the old Negro
spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God
Almighty, we are free at last!"
Adaptado de: LUTHER KING JR., Martin. I have a dream. Disponível em: <http://www.archives.gov/press/ exhibits/dream-speech.pdf>. Acesso em: 06 set. 2013.
O texto apresenta trechos de um famoso discurso do pastor Martin Luther King Jr., proferido em Washington, D.C., em 1963, por ocasião de uma das maiores manifestações pelos direitos civis já registradas no mundo. Valendo-se de referências políticas e religiosas, pode-se dizer que o texto