shackle bound

The GREATEST DEMONSTRATION FOR FREEDOM

5 score years 

ago.

demand[ing] 

the riches of freedom 

and the security 

of justice, the fierce urgency of Now

a symbolic shadow, 

a joyous daybreak 

to end the long night of their captivity

crippled by manacles and c h a i n s

Languished in the Corners of Society

[the] ARCHITECTS of REPUBLIC defaulted on this promissory note, 

and the BANK of JUSTICE is bankrupt, take[ing] the tranquilizing drug of gradualism

[walking through] dark and desolate valley[s]

[a] sweltering summer of legitimate discontent 

[instead of] an invigorating autumn of freedom.

Whirl w i n d s of revolt

sHaKe the foundations of [the] nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

[those] who stand on the warm threshold of which leads into the PALACE of justice:

drink from the cup of bitterness and hatred

[instead of] h i g h plane[s] of dignity and discipline [at] majestic heights of meeting PHYSICAL force with soul force

their destiny is tied up with our destiny

their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

We cannot walk alone, [but must] 

work together, pray together, struggle together, to to jail together

to stand up for freedom together [on the]

prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire,

heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania,

snow-capped Rockies of Colorado,

but not only that, [but the]

Stone Mountain of Georgia,

Lookout Mountain of Tennessee,

and every hill and molehill of Mississippi