“With this faith we will be able to hear out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.”

We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies，heavy with fatigue of travel，cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.

We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.

We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "for whites only."

We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.

No，we are not satisfied，and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of excessive trials and ①tribulation.

Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells.

Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you ②battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.

You have been the veterans of creative suffering.

Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is ③redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi: go back to Alabama: go back to Louisiana: go back to the slums and ghettos of the northern cities，knowing that somehow this situation can，and will be changed.

Let us not ④wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today，my friends，that though we must face the difficulties of today and tomorrow，I still have a dream.

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 sons of former slave－owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.