I Have a Dream
同志社中学校３年

黒井

拓登

greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

We cannot turn back.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends - soeven though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have adream. 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 creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal.”

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 brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state swelteringwith the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will betransformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

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 theircharacter.

I have a dream today!

15中学生―Ｄ部門

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as theI have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, withits governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and“nullification” -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black
girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sistersand brothers.
中学生―Ｄ部門

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill andmountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and thecrooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be
revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stoneof hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords ofour nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will
be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail
together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free oneday.

And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God’s children
will be able to sing with new meaning:“My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride,

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!”

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

16And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that:Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ringfrom every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will
be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and whitemen, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands
and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:“Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

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中学生―Ｄ部門

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.