We are not satisfied, and will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.' 'There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, 'When will you be satisfied!'.Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.' 'In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.' 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 make the real promises of democracy.'America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.' But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.'.One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still badly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.'
It will be rebroadcast on Wednesday on CNN and MSNBC, but here are a reminder of some of the most rousing portions of the speech: The 1963 speech is one of the most famous speeches ever, branded the best of the 20th century by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
