梦想英文演讲稿（精选15篇）
FLYING YOUTH, MASTER OUR FUTURE
Distinguished judges, teachers, dear friends
Hello, everybody! My name is, I come from. Today, I am very glad to stand here and share with you my most sincere speech‘Flying youth, master our future!’
Life is a process of growing up. Saying goodbye to childhood, we step into another important time of life‘the youth’.However, who can really say what the youth is ? A period of time? A belief? An attitude to life? Or anything else? We don’t know.
A famous poet said ‘ youth is a lovely song ,where nothing is impossible youth is a meaningful book, you’ll be never bored of it ;youth is a rapid river ,it keeps on flowing day and night ;youth is a cup of tea ,it shows you different kinds of tastes in your life. ’
As youth is so precious, of course, we must treasure it .Don’t let the limited time pass by, leaving nothing of significance to our future. Actually, youth has a lot to do with our future. It’s necessary for us to prepare ourselves well for the future to come. So, what should we do? Here ,I’ll point out some tips to help equip ourselves
First of all, recognize the direction of your future. In other word, think of what you’d like to be some day. A teacher ? A doctor ? A writer? Don’t afraid of thinking big and great .Since you are young , you can dream of doing anything and becoming anyone in the future .
What’s more , never ignore the power of knowledge. Read more books and travel around. For one thing, it can increase your knowledge, for another, it’ll broaden your horizon.
Last but not the least , stick to your dream. It easier said than done. After all, future is not all roses. So, we should have enough courage and determination to overcome all the difficulties.
I firmly believe one sentence that‘If you think you can, of course you can!’Just believe we can make it! Keep on walking towards our dream. Flying youth ,master our future. From today, from now on ,from Duping Middle School ! Ready ? That’s all. Thank you so much for your attention !
Everyone has a dream, want to be a police, want to be a teacher, want to be a novelist... I also have a dream, my dream is to be a scientist.
If grow up, I really became a scientist. I'll watch carefully what on earth have ecological changes, etc., the place with bad, invention related equipment.
I found that the earth environment is becoming worse. I want to invent a kind of electronic bird. It will suck erosion of heaven in the sky fly dust, make the sky more blue. When birds hopping on the ground, it will suck the ground of garbage, let the air becomes more pure and fresh, as you all know, birds can't swim, but electronic birds can swim, it can put the polluted river has become clean and clear.
I also found that the present shortage of resources. I invented a kind of fast forward. It put the resources of rolled to hundreds of years, several thousand years, tens of thousands of years, hundreds of millions of years. But in this period of time, man is not old, resources can be increased.
If the invention is not the good earth, I will invent a kind of speed of the spacecraft, the spacecraft is fully automatic. It can automatically search for habitable planets in space and take the human to the planet. The speed of the spacecraft surface is very small. There is only one double bed so big, but can take ten thousand people at a time. Because of the speed of light, the spacecraft compact so it won't hit the rocks. Planet. And it is very fast, as long as 0.0003 seconds per km back and forth. If really can not find a suitable planet. The speed of light, the spacecraft will be turned into a is bigger than the earth planet for people to live, this planet similar to earth. But in fact it has many functions, the inside of the house is the earthquake of flood control. Cutting trees sprout up immediately. Always very clear fresh air, the air is always blue... .
These are just my dream. But I hope it can become a reality.
每个人都有梦想，想当警察，想当老师，想当小说家……我也有梦想，我的梦想是当科学家。
如果长大，我真的当上了科学家。我会仔细观察地球上有什么生态变化等，不好的地方，发明相关的设备机器。
我发现地球的环境越来越差。我想发明一种电子小鸟。它在天上飞时会吸蚀天上的灰尘，让天上变得更加湛蓝。当小鸟在地上蹦跳时，它会吸走地上的垃圾，让空气变得更加清新，大家都知道，小鸟是不会游泳的，可是电子小鸟却会游泳，它能把被污染的河流变得干净清澈。
我还发现，现在的资源短缺。我发明一种时光飞转器。它的产生把资源的地方飞转到几百年，几千年，几万年，几亿年后。可在这段时间内，人是不会老去的，资源却可以增加。
如果这些发明还不能把地球变好，我就发明一种光速飞船，这个飞船是全自动的。它可以自动查找太空中适合人类居住的星球并带人类去那个星球。这个光速飞船表面很小巧。只有一个双人床那么大，可却能一次带一万人。正因为光速飞船小巧所以它不会撞到陨石。星球。而且它速度很快，来回只要每千米0.0003秒。如果实在找不到适合的星球。光速飞船就会变身成一个比地球还大的星球给人们住，这个星球里面跟地球差不多。可其实它有许多功能，里面的房子是抗震防洪的。树砍掉立刻会长出来。空气永远很清鲜，空气永远湛蓝……。
这些现在还只是我的梦想。但我希望它能变成现实。
I don’t know what that dream is that you have, I don’t care how disappointing it might have been as you’ve been working toward that dream, but that dream that you’re holding in your mind, that it’s possible!
Some of you already know, that it’s hard, it’s not easy, it’s hard changing your life. That in the process of working on your dreams you are going to incur a lot of disappointment, a lot of failure, a lot of pain. There are moments that you are going to doubt yourself. You said, God why is this happening to me? I’m just trying to take care of my family, trying to give them a good life, I’m not trying to steal or rob from anybody. Why does this have to happen to me. For those of you that have experienced some hardships – don’t give up on your dream.
The rough times are gonna come, but they have not come to stay, they have come to pass. Greatness, is not this wonderful, esoteric, illusive, God like feature that only the special among can achieve. It’s something that truly exists, in all of us. It’s very important for you to believe that you are the one!
Most people they raise a family, they earn a living and then they die. They stop growing, they stop working on themselves, they stop stretching, the stop pushing themselves. Then a lot of people like to complain but they don’t wanna do anything about their situation. And most people don’t work on their dreams – why?
1. Is because of fear, fear of failure “what if things don’t work out“?
2. Is fair of success “what if they do and I can’t handle it?”
These are not risk takers
You have spent so much time with other people, you have spent so much time trying to get people to like you, you know other people more than you know yourself. You’ve studied them, you know about them, you want to hang out with them, you want to be just like them. You’ve invested so much time on them, you don’t know who you are. I challenge you to spend time by yourself.
It’s necessary, that you get the losers out of your life, if you want to live your dream. But people who are running towards their dreams, life has a special kind of meaning. When you become the ‘right-person’, what you do is you start separating yourself from other people you begin to have a certain uniqueness, as long as you follow other people, as long as you are being a ‘copy-cat’, you will never ever be the best copy-cat in the world but you will be the best you can be!
I challenge you to define your value
Everybody won’t see it, everybody won’t join you, everybody won’t have the vision…it’s necessary to know that you are an uncommon breed. It’s necessary that you align yourself with people and attract people into your business, who are hungry, people who are unstoppable and unreasonable, people who are refusing to live life just as it is and who want more!
The people that are living their dreams are parting with winners, to attach themselves to the and the people who are living their dreams are the people that know that if it’s going to happen it’s up to them!
If you want to be more successful, if you want to have and do stuff you never done before then I’m asking you to invest in you!
If you want to be more successful, if you want to have and do stuff you never done before then I’m asking you to invest in you!
You don’t have to go through life being a victim. And even though you face disappointments, you have to know within yourself that ‘I can do this, even if no one else sees it for me, I must see it for myself!’
No matter how bad it is, how hard it gets, say to yourself, I’m going to make it!
I wanna represent an idea. I wanna represent possibilities. Some of you right now, you wanna go to the next level. You wanna be a civil engineer, you wanna council, you wanna be a doctor.Listen to me: You can’t get to that level. You can’t get to that level until you start to invest in your mind.
I challenge you to get to a place where people do not like or do not even bother you anymore. Why? Because you’re not concerned with making them happy anyway. Because you’re trying to blow up. You’re trying to get to the next level. Because you’re investing in your mind.
If you’re still talking about your dream and your goals but you have not done anything just TAKE THE FIRST STEP.
You can make your parents proud, you can make your school proud you can touch millions of peoples lives and the world will never be the same again because you came this way. Don’t let anybody steal your dream!
After we face a rejection and a “no” or we have a meeting and no one shows up, or somebody says “you can count on me” and they don’t come through, what if we have that kind of attitude that cause reposes, nobody believes in you, you’ve lost again, and again, the lights are cut off but you are still looking at your dream, reviewing it everyday and saying to yourself: IT’S NOT OVER UNTIL I WIN!
You can live your dream!
Dear：
I enter tile university after years of hard study and preparation(准备). But life in the university is not as satisfactory（满意） as what I had expected. I become lazy and don"t want to become silcent. I become puzzled. I don"t know what I can do in the future. Then I become unhappy.
Four years in the university is only a short period when compared my whole lifetime. Now it has passed a half. In this year, many people ,such as my parents,my friends, ask me what I want to do and tell me to map out a plan for my life. I don"t want to follow their suggestion, and I want to go my style. So I think carefully. I have been a young volunteer（志愿者） for five "s very happy and significant. Then I have a want to join the University Student Volunteers Go West Programe. I think I can be a teacher in the want to try my best to help them and help me. I want to see the world cearly. Now I can"t reach its demand and it"s very diffcult,but I will work hard in the next two years. There is an old saying"where there is a will,there is a way.（有志者事竟成）"I think my dream can come in the university I mature,and in the university I prepare for the real world.
At last,I want to say to everybody"Hlod fast to your dreams,no matter how big or small they path to dreams may not be smooth（平滑） and wide,even some sacrifices（牺牲） are hold on to the end,you can find there is no geater happiness than making your dream come ture."
Dear：
My dream is to be a doctor when I grow up. I want to help those sick people.
I know , to achieve my dream, I need study hard now. I hope I can go to a famous university to study medicine after I graduate from the high school. I’ll study and do research on different diseases that bring great pains to the patients. After that , if I have a chance, I plan to open a hospital of my own. Then I can help as many as the poor people who have little money to see doctors. I wish everyone in the world can keep healthy and to alive longer.
I believe that I can realize my dream one day if only I insist on working hard and never give up.
Dear teachers and close friends:
I’m very glad to stand here to share my speech with you.Today I’m going to talk about dreams.
Everyone has a dream.Martin Luther King had a dream-and we can all recall his Civil Rights Speech.Phil Knight had a dream-and now the whole world knows his Nike Slogan“Just Do It”!I also have a dream,but not only a simple one.
When I was in primary school,my dream was that I would be a doctor when I grew up.I’ll be the first person who produces a new
Medicine.This kind of medicine can make teachers relax when they are busy correcting their students’ exercises and preparing their lessons.Because one day when I woke up at midnight,I found my father,a senior Chinese teacher,was still busy with his work.I was deeply moved.I wish my father could be healthy and relaxed every minute.
Now I’m a senior Grade Two student,all my classmates and I are working hard,we all know the College Entrance Examination which will come next year is a big problem for us.We must study harder and harder in order to go to a good university,then when we finish our school,we can find a good job in society.My dream is also that.Though now I’m not good at study,I’ll try my best.
I know fantasy is hard to come true,bue dream can.
I’ll work hard for my dreams,I’ll never give up.
Dear：
I have a dream that one day every vally shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
Wow, what a dream it has been for Martin Luther King. But the changing world seems telling me that people gradually get their dreams lost somehow in the process of growing up, and sometimes I personally find myself saying goodbye unconsciously to those distant childhood dreams.
However, we meed dreams. They nourish our spirit; they represent possibility even when we are dragged down by reality. They keep us going. Most successful people are dreamers as well as ordinary people who are not afraid to think big and dare to be great. When we were little kids, we all dreamed of doing something big and splashy, something significant. Now what we need to do is to maintain them, refresh them and turn them into reality. However, the toughest part is that we often have no ideas how to translate these dreams into actions. Well, just start with concrete objectives and stick to it. Don’t let the nameless fear confuse the eye and confound our strong belief of future. Through our talents, through our wits, through our endurance and through our creativity, we will make it.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow. So my dear friends, think of your old and maybe dead dreams. Whatever it is, pick it up and make it alive from today.
Everyone has their own dreams, I am no exception. This is my dream for five years. I grew up love swimming, correct posture, swim fast, heard a lot of praise, some said to I taught them to swim! From then on, the dream was born, so I keep practice every day...
My effort is to one day be able to not only when athletes, in the crowd watching right now I get a medal of that a moment, but also for the motherland proud! I'm from grade one to grade five dream still has not changed. I still love swimming, fierce war still admire the sports meeting of the athletes; Still admire the moment they get prize excited and happy. I hope one day I can and all as they walked onto the stage, looking forward to fierce applause, I am looking forward to... These, for the past five years, there is no change.
I love swimming, I once thought: "the power of a dream is so large, can pay all costs for dreams, sometimes I am not afraid of hard work, because I've heard a word" I want to do must do our best to finish it, "this is my motto in life." I'm looking forward to the podium on the excitement and joy of a moment, so I will do my best efforts, on their own strength, to complete my dream, this is me. I look forward to the return of my success.
In order to dream, come rain or shine, I still hold this dream, will not change forever...
每个人都会有自己的梦想，我也不例外。这是我坚守了五年的梦想了。我从小爱游泳，姿势正确，游得快，听过不少赞言，还有人说要我教她们游泳呢!从此这个梦诞生了，于是我坚持每天练习……
我努力不仅是为了有一天能当上运动员，在众人的眼下观看着我领取奖牌的那一刻，而且也是为了给祖国争光!我从一年级到五年级的梦想依然没有改变。我依然热爱游泳，依然仰慕着运动会上激烈战争的运动员们;依然仰慕她们拿奖的那一刻的激动与快乐。我盼望我有一天能和她们一样走上舞台、盼望众人激烈的掌声，我盼望着……这些、五年来，依然没有改变。
我爱游泳，我曾想过：“梦想的力量是如此的巨大，有时可以为梦想付出一切代价，我不怕辛苦，因为我听过一句话“自己想要做到的事就一定要尽自己的最大的努力去完成它”这就是我人生的格言。”我期待着站上领奖台上的那一刻的激动与快乐，因此我要尽自己最大的努力、靠自己的实力，去完成我的梦想，这就是我。我期待着我成功的到来。
为了梦想，风雨无阻，我依然坚守这个梦想，不会改变，直到永远……
I don’t know what that dream is that you have, I don’t care how disappointing it might have been as you’ve been working toward that dream, but that dream that you’re holding in your mind, that it’s possible!
Some of you already know, that it’s hard, it’s not easy, it’s hard changing your life. That in the process of working on your dreams you are going to incur a lot of disappointment, a lot of failure, a lot of pain. There are moments that you are going to doubt yourself. You said, God why is this happening to me? I’m just trying to take care of my family, trying to give them a good life, I’m not trying to steal or rob from anybody. Why does this have to happen to me. For those of you that have experienced some hardships – don’t give up on your dream.
The rough times are gonna come, but they have not come to stay, they have come to pass. Greatness, is not this wonderful, esoteric, illusive, God like feature that only the special among can achieve. It’s something that truly exists, in all of us. It’s very important for you to believe that you are the one!
Most people they raise a family, they earn a living and then they die. They stop growing, they stop working on themselves, they stop stretching, the stop pushing themselves. Then a lot of people like to complain but they don’t wanna do anything about their situation. And most people don’t work on their dreams – why?
1. Is because of fear, fear of failure “what if things don’t work out“?
2. Is fair of success “what if they do and I can’t handle it?”
These are not risk takers
You have spent so much time with other people, you have spent so much time trying to get people to like you, you know other people more than you know yourself. You’ve studied them, you know about them, you want to hang out with them, you want to be just like them. You’ve invested so much time on them, you don’t know who you are. I challenge you to spend time by yourself.
It’s necessary, that you get the losers out of your life, if you want to live your dream. But people who are running towards their dreams, life has a special kind of meaning. When you become the ‘right-person’, what you do is you start separating yourself from other people you begin to have a certain uniqueness, as long as you follow other people, as long as you are being a ‘copy-cat’, you will never ever be the best copy-cat in the world but you will be the best you can be!
I challenge you to define your value
Everybody won’t see it, everybody won’t join you, everybody won’t have the vision…it’s necessary to know that you are an uncommon breed. It’s necessary that you align yourself with people and attract people into your business, who are hungry, people who are unstoppable and unreasonable, people who are refusing to live life just as it is and who want more!
The people that are living their dreams are parting with winners, to attach themselves to the and the people who are living their dreams are the people that know that if it’s going to happen it’s up to them!
If you want to be more successful, if you want to have and do stuff you never done before then I’m asking you to invest in you!
If you want to be more successful, if you want to have and do stuff you never done before then I’m asking you to invest in you!
You don’t have to go through life being a victim. And even though you face disappointments, you have to know within yourself that ‘I can do this, even if no one else sees it for me, I must see it for myself!’
No matter how bad it is, how hard it gets, say to yourself, I’m going to make it!
I wanna represent an idea. I wanna represent possibilities. Some of you right now, you wanna go to the next level. You wanna be a civil engineer, you wanna council, you wanna be a doctor.Listen to me: You can’t get to that level. You can’t get to that level until you start to invest in your mind.
I challenge you to get to a place where people do not like or do not even bother you anymore. Why? Because you’re not concerned with making them happy anyway. Because you’re trying to blow up. You’re trying to get to the next level. Because you’re investing in your mind.
If you’re still talking about your dream and your goals but you have not done anything just TAKE THE FIRST STEP.
You can make your parents proud, you can make your school proud you can touch millions of peoples lives and the world will never be the same again because you came this way. Don’t let anybody steal your dream!
After we face a rejection and a “no” or we have a meeting and no one shows up, or somebody says “you can count on me” and they don’t come through, what if we have that kind of attitude that cause reposes, nobody believes in you, you’ve lost again, and again, the lights are cut off but you are still looking at your dream, reviewing it everyday and saying to yourself: IT’S NOT OVER UNTIL I WIN!
You can live your dream!
It’s my great honor to stand here to share my speech with you. Today the topic of my speech is: The Pursuit of Dream.
Now let’s think of our old days as we were students in primary schools. Have you ever remembered that the teachers often ask questions as “what’s your dream?”, or “what are you want to be in the future?” and what’s your answer in that childish and fantastic age? Has anyone of you answered like this: “I want to be a painter”, or “I want to be a scientist”, or “I plan to be a police”?
A few years later, we start our new journey of study in high schools and become mature and practical in our mind. Then, have you ever changed your dreams? If so, what’s it?
But now, I think, most of us become down-to-earth and the dream is more practical than before. However, have you taken actions to pursue your dream? Are you working hard enough to make your dream come true?
As for myself, I have dreamed to be an excellent police in high school due to there are so many thefts in my hometown while they are seldom caught. Sooner I have realized how ridiculous am I and now I turn to realistic: I just want to be a translator.
How do I pursue my dream?
First of all, I try my best to correct the pronunciation and read the textbook or other English magazines such as: English weekly, English salon and the like. I try to do this day by day. Now I have improved my reading ability a lot and it also enlarged my vocabulary.
Secondly, I often do some translating extension and embrace my teacher’s suggestion. It benefits me much.
Last but not the least, I realize my dream by reading Chinese literature. Maybe you will say it’s what the Chinese major students should do. If you say so, you are badly wrong. For as an English major student, how can you know others well if you even don’t familiar with your country? On the other hand, it also benefits me in translation and writing.
In a word, I have already working in my dream. What about you?
That’s all. Thank you.
Sometimes, what makes us relaxed and leaves us with a lighter feeling is enjoying the freedom of dreaming about good things. We can freely think of things that would do our lives more good than harm. We hope these things will happen in our lives some day.
Sometimes, what makes us relaxed and leaves us with a lighter feeling is enjoying the freedom of dreaming about good things. We can freely think of things that would do our lives more good than harm. We hope these things will happen in our lives some day.
To me, a dream is a picture of the place where we want to find ourselves some day. A dream is like a design of how we want things to look by the time we get there.
Dreaming keeps us in motion; it keeps us going.
Sometimes, what makes us relaxed and leaves us with a lighter feeling is enjoying the freedom of dreaming about good things. We can freely think of things that would do our lives more good than harm. We hope these things will happen in our lives some day.
Dreaming is free. Each of us has our own dreams. Also, the way we deal with things in our dreams shows us who we can really be in real life. We tend to act based on what kinds of dreams we have, but we also have the freedom to make those dreams come true.
To me, a dream is a picture of the place where we want to find ourselves some day. A dream is like a design of how we want things to look by the time we get there.
Dreaming keeps us in motion; it keeps us going.
有时候,自由自在地想像那些美好的事物能让我们的身心得以放松。我们可以无拘无束地想像那些会对我们产生利大于弊的影响的事物,并期待这些事物有一天能够出现。
梦想是自由的,我们每个人都有属于自己的梦想。此外,我们处理梦想的方式也真实地反映了现实生活中的自己。虽然我们的行动往往以梦想为依据,但我们仍然拥有让美梦成真的自由。
对我而言,梦想就是一幅图画,画中是未来某天我们发现自我的地方;英语短文梦想就如一幅蓝图,所有的事物都呈现出我们想要的样子。
梦想让我们行动起来,使我们坚持下去。
Good morning everyone
It\'s a great honor for me to stand here to deliver a speech to you. Then today I want to talk something about dreams and reality.
As the famous Russian litterateur Lev Tolstoy (列夫、托尔斯泰)said, "Ideal is the beacon(烟火、灯塔). Without ideal, there is no secure (无虑的, 安全的, 安心的, 可靠的, 保险的)direction; without a direction, there is no life." So there”s no doubt that everyone needs his or her own ideal. Have you ever thought that what is practical and sensible(.明智的, 有感觉的, 明理的) will connect with our most treasured dreams? Maybe, to somebody, reality has little relation to ideal. To others nothing can be done without the sense of reality. So make our dreams a part of our reality. And make our reality a part of our dreams. There is no reason why our dreams must oppose our reality. Improve our dreams and our reality by bringing them together.
As a university student, establishing a dream is one of the most important things we have to do .But everyone must see the reality clearly at first. Your family condition, your personal ability, your social intercourse (交往、交流), your subject and the you want to do, these things show you the reality and lead you to establish a dream.
Further more, difficult or otherwise, we should put the power of reality into our dreams. Last but not least 最后但并不是最不重要的(一点) remember to work hard at the task of chasing 追逐our dreams. Do believe that we can achieve our ideal step by step by the passage of time! 一段时间之后
In the end, I want to share with you a poetry named " I think I can"
Maybe you can not understand the meaning of the poetry , But do not be worried ,Let me tell you the meaning
Thank you for your listening!
Everyone has a dream.
Everyone's dream is different. Perhaps we are keen to fly, their ability to be able to rely on an out of the sky.
Perhaps we are keen to dance in this short life left in fond memories.Our life only once, we should cherish it. Machine was no longer in your life do you want to do.
Although we are still students, are studying, but we should be ahead of our future planning to do.
You asked his high school What to do after graduation? Do you have to ask ourselves, What is the dream? Do you know what to do and learn? From that moment on, you ask yourself well.
Since then, you may struggle with the goal, maybe you have from this program, maybe you should know how to cherish life. In that case, you will not waste his life !
每个人都拥有梦想.每个人的梦想都不一样.也许我们渴望高飞,能够依靠自己的能力走出一片天空.也许我们渴望起舞,能够在这短暂的生命中留下美好回忆.人的生命只有一次,我们应该好好珍惜.机不复得,在你有生之年做你想做的事.虽然现在的我们还是学生,还在念书,但是我们应该提前为我们的将来做规划.你问过自己高中毕业后要做什么吗?你问过自己,梦想是什么吗?你知道自己是为了什么而学习吗?从这一刻起，好好问问自己吧。也许你从此有了奋斗的目标，也许你从此有了计划，也许你懂得了应该怎样珍惜生命。那么，你将不荒废一生!
five score years ago, a great american, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the emancipation proclamation. this momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. it came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
but one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the negro is still not free. one hundred years later, the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. one hundred years later, the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. one hundred years later, the negro is still languishing in the corners of american society and finds himself an exile in his own land. so we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.
in a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. when the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the constitution and the declaration of independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every american was to fall heir. this note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
it is obvious today that america has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. instead of honoring this sacred obligation, america has given the negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." but we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. we refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
so we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
we have also come to this hallowed spot to remind america of the fierce urgency of now. this is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. 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 open the doors of opportunity to all of god's children. now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
it would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the negro. this sweltering summer of the negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.
those who hope that the negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. there will be neither rest nor tranquility in america until the negro is granted his citizenship rights. the whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
but there is something that i must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. in the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
we must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. we must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
the marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
we cannot walk alone.and as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. we cannot turn back. there are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "when will you be satisfied?" we can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. we cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. we can never be satisfied as long as a negro in mississippi cannot vote and a negro in new york believes he has nothing for which to vote. no, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.