Patriotic – MATTERS OF BLACK LIVES . COM https://mattersofblacklives.com Recruiting We The People Mon, 27 Dec 2021 08:43:53 +0000 en hourly 1 https://mattersofblacklives.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/cropped-upsidedownflag-600x800-1-32x32.jpg Patriotic – MATTERS OF BLACK LIVES . COM https://mattersofblacklives.com 32 32 KEEP THE REPUBLIC ALERT RALLY https://mattersofblacklives.com/mandate/ https://mattersofblacklives.com/mandate/#respond Mon, 27 Dec 2021 07:08:33 +0000 https://mattersofblacklives.com/?p=1989 Join With Mr. Citizen Patriots’ – “We the People”

                                                                                    

        S.O.S. DISTRESS of LIFE, PROPERTY = FREEDOM  [US Flag Code, C, a]

“KEEP THE REPUBLIC” ALERT  RALLY

NO VACCINE MANDATE   

 END And PREVENT
MEDICAL TERRORISM      

MODERN DAY, CHATTEL SLAVERY & JIM CROWISM
     


       “WE REMEMBER THE TUSKEGEE EXPERIMENTS”

70% of Black Citizens Resist Mandated Experiment Vaccine
Join With Awakening American, US Black Citizens
of the 1866-68 Civil Rights/14th Amendment Federal Black Citizens

                    “To Serve and Protect
     

Law Enforcement Officers
First Responders, Military Personnel, Veterans, et al

Sunday, January 2, 2022 | 1:00 pm Pct until 3:30 pm Pct
Federal Building On Corner of Wilshire and Federal Blvds., Westwood, CA

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HELP TED: “Capture The Presidency” https://mattersofblacklives.com/helpted/ https://mattersofblacklives.com/helpted/#respond Tue, 05 Oct 2021 20:17:09 +0000 https://mattersofblacklives.com/?p=1932 Greetings, families, friends, supporters, allies, et al,

HELP ME: “Capture The Presidency”

A friend, ally, and Civil Rights activists over the now 36 years of my homelessness, resolution activism beginning January 1985, know that I have not constantly harrased you, begging for money.

Rather, I appeal for a small fraction of your precious time, who GOD has graciously gifted talents to assist my quest for justice, and the implementation of a We the People mandated, national plan and strategy Executiveley Ordered by the President of the United States (POTUS).

This Nation Homelessness Plan can be viewed at www.Domevillage.us | www.Nf2now.com | www.DomesticPeacecorps.org; as well as my personal contribution to USA patriotism www.MisterPatriot.us, and atheletism for social-civic civility via Cricket www.ComptonCricketClub.us

 In the midst of this unprecedented, downward spiral into man-induced, apocalyptic disaster in which our beloved country is stealthily being forced into a tyrannical, “new world order” (Nordu Ordu Selcurm), there is good, enlightening, hopeful news of “surprise” total victory for us.

Out of the midst of this cold darkness it the rising of that bright daylight of the GOD’s Sun of Justice, is at last beginning to emerge.  Hence, “Great Day In The Morning”!

While unable to mention names just yet, two very high ranking, political, office holders in Los Angeles and I, have been privately (no news releases, etc.) working on a strategy that will influence the Biden Administration to execute the America’s only Comprehensive, Strategic, National Policy and Plan (The National Plan) that eradicates aforesaid homelessness culture and its mainstream, society causes.

In about 10 days from now, these two individuals and my White House negotiating A-Team will enter into negotiations with the White House US Interagency Council On Homelessness (https://www.usich.gov/), after which the POTUS will proclaim the Executive Ordered national plan on Thanksgiving or Indigenous Day, of November 25th.

In “order to more perfect the Union, to establish justice” for insurance of “domestic peace”, et al, it is imperative that We the People simultaneously respectively learn the basics of this strategy and in unison to work together.

More than ever, I am personally calling you to heed by by momentarily prioritizing your work around this nation-saving venture, as Constitutional, preamble ordered citizens’ to perform the necessary duty to GOD, country and honor for the freedoms that we are ever so close to stealthily loosing.  It’s all hands on-deck!

You are needed to basically, first educate yourself on the We the People movement at https://mattersofblacklives.com/wtp-pream/, then fill out the WTP Application of Participation at https://mattersofblacklives.com/wtp-appl/, and share with all your others.

When have done so, please alert me, as its important that I know our strengths and weaknesses that we my properly make strategy.

Our negotiating, working team will do the “heavy lifting”.

By this action, when meeting with WH staff, they will acknowledge that our negotiating A-Team demonstrates a functioning, national body politic standing with, beside, behind and in front of us.

Thanks kindly for your service to our country, and in deep appreciating honor to the multitude of primary young, innocent, boys, and men, including girls and women also in uniform, as well as cilivians who suffered and died under the colors of the Star-Spangled Banner.  Let us salvage and maintain the freedom they won for us.  Now is the time. The fierce moment of now”

To participate, Ted@TedHayes.us or 424-248-4219

Ted Hayes
Justiceville
Agape-Shalom!

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Mission: “Capture” The Presidency https://mattersofblacklives.com/wtp-captp/ https://mattersofblacklives.com/wtp-captp/#respond Wed, 29 Sep 2021 03:49:19 +0000 https://mattersofblacklives.com/?p=1913 Mission Quest: “Capture” The Presidency

Disclaimer:
“Capture” Is Figurative, Not Literal.
Meaning To Grasp The Full, Undivided Attention of the President

“If you want me, as President to do something for you, you have to make me?
(Former President Obama)
“We Are The People That We’ve Been Waiting For”
(UEFA EURO)
“We the People…In order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice,
insure Domestic Tranquility, etc.”
(The Preamble)

National Security Threat
The homelessness culture scourge throughout the nation, immenating from Los Angeles, its National Capital, is rapidly becoming the most dangerous, national security-threat to the United States, Union Republic.

The Mission is designed to “make” the President of the United States (POTUS) issue an emergency, January 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation-like, Executive Order to little known, White House, US Interagency Council On Homelessness (USICH) which is comprised of all 19 federal government departments, essentially being the Presidential Cabinet.

Procedural Steps To The Presidency
The Cabinet, overseen by his specially appointed Envoy, i.e., Czar Homeless (The Act, Section 4)

The Czar orchestrates the Council on effectuating the Justiceville,“Comprehensive, Strategic, National Plan” (CSNPP) that eradicates homelessness culture and its mainstream, societal causes.

Mission authority and power is enforced by the latent, 155 years old, 1866-68 Civil Rights/14th Amendment Act (The Act) of the Federal, i.e., Executive Branch -Presidency, the POTUS as Commander in Chief being enforced by the military in accordance with the Emancipation Proclamation, stating:

The Act, Sec. 8 “…whenever the President of the United States shall have reason to believe that offences have been or are likely to be committed against the provisions of this actit shall be lawful for him, in his discretion…for the purpose of the more speedy arrest and trial of persons charged with a violation of this act;” (edited)

To have “reason to believe”, the POTUSA must heed “any efforts…” which in conjunction with the body politic of all Americans, black citizens “may make for their actual freedom”, whereby they may experience citizenship “as is enjoyed by white citizens.” (Sec. 1, The Act)

The January 1, 1863, Executive Ordered, Emancipation Proclamation” is bases for this Constitutional Act

“…all persons held as slavesshall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom” (edited)

Constitutional Legal and Moral High Ground Factor
Due to the 403 years of unrequited, unjust experiences in America, as in other negative, national, social dysfunction statistic, more than all other ethno-racial identities, black citizens are the overwhelming, disproportionate population of homelessness culture.

Their experience, not race-skin color, etc., ironically affords We the People the unprecedented, and optimum “perfect storm” opportunity to achieve the objective of the Executive Order.

By the authority awarded black citizens, We the People gain the moral high ground, especially in the sight of the Judge of all the world, and Central Figure of the Declaration of Independence.
See https://mattersofblacklives.com/batram/

Such is the actual matter of America’s experimental, Republican Form of Government Dream, of essentially, according to the US Constitution, black citizens are indeed, that proverbial, “Great, White, Hope” of national salvation.

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WTP: The Preamble https://mattersofblacklives.com/wtp-pream/ https://mattersofblacklives.com/wtp-pream/#respond Tue, 28 Sep 2021 12:15:47 +0000 https://mattersofblacklives.com/?p=1871

The Preamble
Constitution of the United States of America

The Citizens Oath of Office

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

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Mission: ‘Capture’ The Presidency – Pathway to the Power

Introduction: Definition of We The People Body Politic

Objective: Humanely Resolve National Homelessness Culture

Honor, Duty, Country: Our individual and collective commitment to our oath of citizenships

Alignment Narrative:  Resonance to the agenda united effort

Memorandum of Understanding: Parameters of Bodily Function

Application: Information of commitment

 

 

 

 

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The Constitutional and Moral Matter of the USA https://mattersofblacklives.com/mat/ https://mattersofblacklives.com/mat/#respond Tue, 17 Aug 2021 19:48:38 +0000 https://mattersofblacklives.com/?p=1775 “Black Citizens Are The Living, National Treasure of America”
White American Blood Shed For
Black Chattel Slaves



In light of the critical crisis of declining power
of the United States, Union Republic:

Now is the optimum time that Patriots recognize and embrace the real matter, substance, fabric, essence of the United States black citizens.

These unique, non willing immigration heritage Americans are the only Constitutionally authorized citizens whom are specially and specifically empowered with the only federal, super citizenship status in our country.

This super status is under the direct Jurisdiction of the President of the United States (POTUS), who as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, executes the mandates of the 1866-68 Civil Rights/14th Amendment Act, if necessary, enforced by the Military according the January 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation Executive Order of President Abraham Lincoln.

Note: Military intervention and support for black citizens mentioned four (4) times

“and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.”

“therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States”

“and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.”

“this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.”

Note: These four mentions correlate and are the foundation of Sections 5, 8, 9, of the 1866 Civil Rights Act.

When the Patriotic, We the People obediently executes this mandated order, they/we will then finally learn the meaning “to more perfect the Union, establish Justice, insure Domestic Tranquility, etc.” thereby being enabled to “keep” our sacred Republic.

Based on the January 1, 1863, Presidential Executive Order of Abraham Lincolns’ Emancipation Proclamation, such immense and exclusive authority of black citizens, the descendants of militarily liberated chattel slaves making them our Union Republic’s “Living, National Treasure”.

Note: If for whatever reason, or by any course of action, should We the People loose the Constitutional efficacy, matter of black citizens’ lives, thereby rendering them/us politically inconsequential, the Republic will be lost, and Union dissolved, having lost its most precious treasure, national heartbeat and breath upon which it is geo physically, psychologically, emotionally, morally, and spiritually built.  Hence, the special protection, survival, and promotion of black citizens, is imperative to the existence of the United States.

Loose them/us, We loose this “new” nation under GOD, as prescribed in the closing remarks of Lincolns’ Gettysburg Address concerning the cause or reason for which it “shall not perish from the earth”, unless, provided that We not be devoted to finish the unfinished work, nor be not dedicated to the great task remaining before us, and not have increased devotion  to that cause.”

Only by finally perfecting this matter concerning America’s greatest and gravest imperfection of the 245 years, generations-destroying, chattel slavery, can our E Pluribu Unum (“Out of Many One”) Nordu Ordu Seclurum (“New Order of the Ages”, nation of Annuit Coeptus (“HE/GOD has favored our undertaking”).

In speaking the sacrifice of the military personnel of the Union Armies, as well as of all Civil War battles, including those of the Southern Confederacy, in the Gettysburg Address, President Lincoln made it very clear that We the People are to “take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion”.

Note: The Civil War, or War To Liberate Chattel Slaves cost We the People circa, 740,000, young, innocent, white boys and men (plus 38,000 blacks of such), as well as millions more wounded in body and soul, including Abraham Lincoln himself.

In fact, he says that by doing so, We insure that those honored dead will not be dead in vain, and this “new” nation under GOD, will have a new birth of freedom, their government shall not perish from the earth.

Further, in Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address on March 1864 he again made it clear what the cause of the military conflict was/is about, saying,

“These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.”

Finally,|
It is reported that in 1862 upon being introduced to Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote the moral fiction novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, Abraham Lincoln fondly commented she was “the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.”

In closing, see “The Battering Ram Citizenships” at https://mattersofblacklives.com/batram/

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Proclamation: “Critical Mass” https://mattersofblacklives.com/proc/ https://mattersofblacklives.com/proc/#respond Sun, 09 May 2021 18:58:28 +0000 https://mattersofblacklives.com/?p=1375 A Critical Mass Point of “Offerings” and Celebration of the
Loving Kindness In Human Awareness
(See Event Info Menu)

Proclaiming Venice Beach:
The Epicenter of the New, Universal Civility
For Reconciliation Healing

The Truce  Day 0f, to, and for Humanity
Regardless of differences, etc., this particular “truce” day will serve as a mutually awakened, living model “Offering” in appreciative Celebration before the sights of the Thinking Universe and in Its Creator, with firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we hold “order, truce, civility, peace and justice by LOVE”.

Just Simply Imagine Together
Represented by every ethno-racial, religious-spiritual identity, social class status, age, etc., together here in Venice Beach into a singular, body politic of We the People, that perhaps instead of the expected, impending doom,  our sacred “Offering” may be appeasing altering it into global blessings.

The Dual Actions
Presidential Attention
This Day, is designed to grab the attention of the President of the United States (POTUS), and by the authority of Section 8 of the 1866 Civil Rights Act, including 4 and 9, plus 2, etc., being based the Emancipation Proclamation, as Commander in Chief, is mandated to meet with, hear and heed our petitions. No excuses allowed!

Global Attention – “Think Globally…Act Locally”
Appealing to all world citizens of every nation, especially in light of their concerns for the matters of black lives, i.e., Black Citizens in the United States, which is the primary source of these countries’ existence; and that such is built upon the backs of chattel enslaved Americans; they too much be awakened and directed.

Further appeals are to the Human Rights entity of the United Nations, The Hague, and other world bodies that address the national as well as individual, human rights injustices, along with every human rights watch NGO’s.

The Double Event of Sunday, June 12, 2021, Venice Beach, CA.

2:00 pm Pct The Procession Gathering at corner of Rose Ave & Ocean Front Walk

3:00 Procession Begins To Hill of Justice

4:30 pm Pct – Banner Raising On Hill of Justice with Concert, Rally and Ceremony

Introduction To:
Matters of Black Lives (MBL) explained as not being the tactics, antics, ignorance and misguided politics of Black Lives Matter, the organization, But is rather, the passionate spirit of the movement to its next, logical step.

The Four Primary Topics
Along with other actions, it is imperative that the following matters must be Presidential Empowered in order to achieve their objectives

  • Resolution To “Visible” Homelessness

  • Resolution to so called “Black On Black” warfare

  • Revelation of HR #194 (Simple) Apology For Slavery and Jim Crow

  • Revelation of the 1866-68 Civil Rights/14th Amendment, Black Super Citizens

Action Awareness Campaign

  • Flip the US Flag Petition – according to the US National Flag Code, Sec.8, a as another point of national unification that we don’t forget our great task remaining before concerning the matter of black lives, especially as it relates to all lives.

  • Revelation of the Apology Resolution – Petitions

  • Revelation of the 1866-68 Civil Rights/14th Amendment, Black Super Citizenship

  • Resolving “Black on Black” Warfare

 

 

 

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“Army” of T.E.D. https://mattersofblacklives.com/army/ https://mattersofblacklives.com/army/#respond Sun, 11 Apr 2021 20:22:07 +0000 https://mattersofblacklives.com/?p=1344 Justice 4 Peace
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US Military Is: Enforcer and Protective Arm of Federal, Black, Super Citizenship Status https://mattersofblacklives.com/mili/ https://mattersofblacklives.com/mili/#respond Wed, 09 Sep 2020 21:34:36 +0000 https://mattersofblacklives.com/?p=404

The United States Armed Forces, i.e., Military Is Twice – Two (2) Times Ordered and Mandated To Enforce The Federal, Super Citizenship of Black Citizens, Either By The President As Commander In Chief Of Such, or Directly By Representative Body of We the People, Black Citizens.

The First Civil Rights Law of the United States, Republican Form of Government’s, 1866-68 Civil Rights Act (The Act) Super Citizenship…

Section 5. the bystanders or posse comitatus of the proper county, or such portion of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the militia, as may be necessary to the performance of the duty with which they are charged, and to insure a faithful observance of the clause of the Constitution which prohibits slavery, in conformity with the provisions of this act;

Section 9. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, or such person as he may empower for that purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the militia, as shall be necessary to prevent the violation and enforce the due execution of this act.

This special designated duty of the US Military is founded upon the President Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation

“and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.”

“And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons”

No other American, US citizens has this special protection, as they are of the willing immigration heritage, whereas, the Subject Beneficiaries of this eternal, Executive Order are of that of 245 years of generations-destroying, chattel slavery.

In fact, in the his November 19, 1863 Gettysburg Address, 11 months post the Proclamation, Commander in Chief Abraham Lincoln essentially proclaimed that the fate of the Republic Union is dependent on how We the People address the greatest imperfection of the Union as ordered to perfect.

“It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here (military) here have thus far so nobly advanced.

“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Such is why, as civilian, body politic, black citizens are perhaps, potentially, the most powerful people in world history.  Think about this!

 

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Patriotic Review Videos: Mr. Patriot Goes To Washington, DC https://mattersofblacklives.com/patriot/ https://mattersofblacklives.com/patriot/#respond Tue, 22 Sep 2020 21:28:15 +0000 https://mattersofblacklives.com/?p=559  

Behold, Mr. Citizen Patriot in DC
(October 24, 25, 2019)
https://youtu.be/5pZJ2bW1nc4

National Introduction of Mr. Patriot
https://youtu.be/5pZJ2bW1nc4

WWII Memorial
https://youtu.be/ff0RISnefLg

Korea Memorial
https://youtu.be/3gduQNeS0xg

The Vietnam Memorial
https://youtu.be/XohqqmDV2jw

We are not immigrants
https://youtu.be/OKlyjYNs92Q

MLK, Jr. Memorial
https://youtu.be/tRkv7fG43Xo

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MBL: Prophet MLK “I Have A Dream Dream” – Promissory Note Black Citizenship https://mattersofblacklives.com/mblcitizen/ https://mattersofblacklives.com/mblcitizen/#respond Fri, 04 Sep 2020 18:12:05 +0000 https://mattersofblacklives.com/?p=359 I Have A Dream
(The Promissory Note and Its Promise as the Federal Super Citizenship)
by the Prophet Rev.-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights March and Rally On Washington, DC
Saturday, August 28, 1963

Promissory Note Statement | Promissory Note Excerpts

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.

One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.

One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.

One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.

This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.

Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.

There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice.

In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?”

We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.

We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the 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, 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 great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells.

Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered 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 redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we 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 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 sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed 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 their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its 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 sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked 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. 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 stone of hope.

With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our 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 one day.

This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a 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. 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 snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

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 to ring, when we let it ring from 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 white men, 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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