…And when this happens, and 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, Jesus and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the worlds of the old Negro spiritual: Free at Last! Free at Last! Thank God, Almighty, we are free at last!”

from “I Have a Dream”

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Gender-inclusive version:

…And when this happens, and 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 people and white people, Jesus and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the worlds of the old Negro spiritual: Free at Last! Free at Last! Thank God, Almighty, we are free at last!”

from “I Have a Dream”