President Clinton on the 50th anniversary of #MLK "I have a dream" speech at the "March on Washington".

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"Let
Freedom
ring,
ceremony"
At
the
Lincoln
Memorial,
Washington
D.C.
August
28th,
2013
President
Bill
Clinton
at
the
50th
anniversary
of
the
"March
on
Washington",
remembering
#MLK

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The
Full
Speech
Text
"Thank
you.
Mr.
President,
Mrs.
Obama,
President
Carter,
Vice
President
Biden,
Dr.
Biden,
I
want
to
thank
my
great
friend
Reverend
Bernice
King
and
the
King
family
for
inviting
me
to
be
a
part
of
this
50th
observation
of
one
of
the
most
important
days
in
American
history.
Dr.
King
and
A.
Philip
Randolph,
John
Lewis
and
Bayard
Rustin,
Dorothy
Height,
Myrlie
Evers,
Daisy
Bates
and
all
the
others
who
led
this
massive
march
knew
what
they
were
doing
on
this
hallowed
ground.
In
the
shadow
of
Lincoln’s
statute,
the
burning
memory
of
the
fact
that
he
gave
his
life
to
preserve
the
Union
and
end
slavery,
Martin
Luther
King
urged
his
crowd
not
to
drink
from
the
cup
of
bitterness
but
to
reach
across
the
racial
divide
because,
he
said,
we
cannot
walk
alone.
Their
destiny
is
tied
up
with
our
destiny.
Their
freedom
is
inextricably
bound
to
our
freedom.
He
urged
the
victims
of
racial
violence
to
meet
white
Americans
with
an
outstretched
hand,
not
a
clenched
fist,
and,
in
so
doing,
to
prove
the
redeeming
power
of
unearned
suffering.
And
then
he
dreamed
of
an
America
where
all
citizens
would
sit
together
at
the
table
of
brotherhood,
where
little
white
boys
and
girls
and
little
black
boys
and
girls
would
hold
hands
across
the
color
line,
where
his
own
children
would
be
judged
not
by
the
color
of
their
skin
but
by
the
content
of
their
character.
This
march
and
that
speech
changed
America.
They
opened
minds,
they
melted
hearts
and
they
moved
millions,
including
a
17-­‐year-­‐old
boy
watching
alone
in
his
home
in
Arkansas.
It
was
an
empowering
moment,
but
also
an
empowered
moment.
As
the
great
chronicler
of
those
years,
Taylor
Branch,
wrote:
The
movement
here
gained
the
force
to
open,
quote,
“the
stubborn
gates
of
freedom,”
and
out
flowed
the
Civil
Rights
Act,
the
Voting
Rights
Act,
immigration
reform,
Medicare,
Medicaid,
open
housing.
It
is
well
to
remember
that
the
leaders
and
the
foot
soldiers
here
were
both
idealists
and
tough
realists;
they
had
to
be.
It
was
a
violent
time.
Just
three
months
later,
we

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lost
President
Kennedy
and
we
thank
God
that
President
Johnson
came
in
and
fought
for
all
those
issues
I
just
mentioned.
Just
five
years
later,
we
lost
Senator
Kennedy.
And
in
between
there
was
the
carnage
of
the
fight
for
jobs,
freedom
and
equality.
Just
18
days
after
this
march,
four
little
children
were
killed
in
the
Birmingham
church
bombinng.
Then
there
were
the
Ku
Klux
Klan
murders,
the
Mississippi
lynching
and
a
dozen
others
until
in
1968
Dr.
King
himself
was
martyred,
still
marching
for
jobs
and
freedom.
What
a
debt
we
owe
to
those
people
who
came
here
50
years
ago.
The
martyrs
played
it
all
for
a
dream,
a
dream,
as
John
Lewis
said,
that
millions
have
now
actually
lived.
So
how
are
we
going
to
repay
the
debt?
Dr.
King’s
dream
of
interdependence,
his
prescription
of
wholehearted
cooperation
across
racial
lines
-­‐-­‐
they
ring
as
true
today
as
they
did
50
years
ago.
Oh,
yes,
we
face
terrible
political
gridlock
now.
Read
a
little
history;
it’s
nothing
new.
Yes,
there
remain
racial
inequalities
in
employment,
income,
health,
wealth,
incarceration,
and
in
the
victims
and
perpetrators
of
violent
crime.
But
we
don’t
face
beatings,
lynchings
and
shootings
for
our
political
beliefs
anymore.
And
I
would
respectfully
suggest
that
Martin
Luther
King
did
not
live
and
die
to
hear
his
heirs
whine
about
political
gridlock.
It
is
time
to
stop
complaining
and
put
our
shoulders
against
the
stubborn
gates
holding
the
American
people
back.
We
cannot
be
disheartened
by
the
forces
of
resistance
to
building
a
modern
economy
of
good
jobs
and
rising
incomes
or
to
rebuilding
our
education
system
to
give
our
children
a
common
core
of
knowledge
necessary
to
ensure
success
or
to
give
Americans
of
all
ages
access
to
affordable
college
and
training
programs.
And
we
thank
the
president
for
his
efforts
in
those
regards.
We
cannot
relax
in
our
efforts
to
implement
health
care
reform
in
a
way
that
ends
discrimination
against
those
with
pre-­‐existing
conditions
-­‐-­‐
one
of
which
is
inadequate
income
to
pay
for
rising
health
care.
A
health
care
reform
that
will
lower
costs
and
lengthen
lives;
nor
can
we
stop
investing
in
science
and
technology
to
train
our
young
people
of
all
races
for
the
jobs
of
tomorrow;
and
to
act
on
what
we
learn
about
our
bodies,
our
businesses
and
our
climate.
We
must
push
open
those
stubborn
gates.

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We
cannot
be
discouraged
by
a
Supreme
Court
decision
that
said
we
don’t
need
this
critical
provision
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
because,
look
at
the
states,
it
made
it
harder
for
African
Americans
and
Hispanics
and
students
and
the
elderly
and
the
infirm
and
poor
working
folks
to
vote.
What
do
you
know;
they
showed
up,
stood
in
line
for
hours
and
voted
anyway.
So,
obviously
we
don’t
need
any
kind
of
law.
But
a
great
democracy
does
not
make
it
harder
to
vote
than
to
buy
an
assault
weapon.
We
must
open
those
stubborn
gates.
And
let
us
not
forget
that
while
racial
divides
persist
and
must
not
be
denied,
the
whole
American
landscape
is
littered
with
the
lost
dreams
and
dashed
hopes
of
people
of
all
races.
And
the
great
irony
of
the
current
moment
is
that
the
future
has
never
brimmed
with
more
possibilities.
It
has
never
burned
brighter
in
what
we
could
become
if
we
push
open
those
stubborn
gates
and
if
we
do
it
together.
The
choice
remains
as
it
was
on
that
distant
summer
day
50
years
ago:
cooperate
and
thrive
or
fight
with
each
other
and
fall
behind.
We
should
all
thank
God
for
Dr.
King
and
John
Lewis
and
all
those
who
gave
us
a
dream
to
guide
us,
a
dream
they
paid
for,
like
our
founders,
with
their
lives,
their
fortunes,
their
sacred
honor.
And
we
thank
them
for
reminding
us
that
America
is
always
becoming,
always
on
a
journey.
And
we
all,
every
single
citizen
among
us,
have
to
run
our
length.
God
bless
them,
and
God
bless
America."
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