And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. And 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 snow-capped 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, and when we allow freedom 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!"Forty years later, Dr. King is gone, felled by an assassin's bullet on April 4, 1968. And many of us still are not "free at last." But the nonviolent warrior's dream continues to burn within us, and the struggle to make Dr. King's vision reality continues. In the US, ABC News paid good money to make the video of the speech available to all who tune in. Gather your friends, loved ones, colleagues — and especially your children — and watch tonight's program if you can.

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