Original sentence: "  Carey had quoted this same song in a speech he gave to the Republican National Convention." He concluded his remarks with the following statement, made 58 years before King's speech--."And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.After citing the lines "From every mountainside / Let freedom ring," Carey concluded his address with these words: "That's exactly what we mean--from every mountain side, let freedom ring.Building to a crescendo, King quotes the memorable first verse of Samuel Smith's patriotic song "America," beginning with "My country 'tis of thee" and ending with "Let freedom ring.But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.Filled with numbers and statistics, Chesnutt's speech/essay chronicles black achievements and black poverty, and he called for full civil and political rights for all African Americans.He had little tolerance for the new ideology of race pride, and he envisioned instead a nation of "one people molded by the same culture.In the speech, delivered to the the Boston Historical and Literary Association, and later published as "Race Prejudice; Its Causes and Its Cure," Chesnutt imagined a "stone by stone" dismantling of race antagonism as the black middle class grows and prospers.Let freedom ring.Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi - from every mountainside.Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.Not only from the Green Mountains and White Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire; not only from the Catskills of New York; but from the Ozarks in Arkansas, from the Stone Mountain in Georgia, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia--let it ring not only for the minorities of the United States but for.Parts of the 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech also echo phrases and themes from a 1905 speech, later published as a essay, by African American author and activist Charles W.This is how King headed toward the end to his 1963 speech:.the disinherited of all the earth--may the Republican Party, under God, from every mountainside, LET FREEDOM RING