Functional Styles. Афанасьева Н.Р - 19 стр.

                                                                                     I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious
                                                                              racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of in-
                                                                              terposition and nullification; one day right down in Alabama little black
                                                                              boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and
                                                                              white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today!
                                                                                     I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and
                                                                              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.
                                                                                     This is our hope. This is the faith that I will go back to the South
                                                                              with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of de-
                                                                              spair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the
        I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of             jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brother-
great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow        hood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together,
jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for             to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom to-
freedom left you battered by the storms of persecutions and staggered         gether, knowing that we will be free one day. And this will be the day,
by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative      this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with
suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is         new meaning, "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I
redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to            sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, from
South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to          every mountainside, let freedom ring!" And if America is to be a great
the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow            nation, this must become true.
this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley               And so let freedom ring – from the prodigious hilltops of New
of despair, I say to you today, my friends. And so even though we face        Hampshire.
the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream           Let freedom ring – from the mighty mountains of New York.
deeply rooted in the American dream.                                                  Let freedom ring – from the heightening Alleghenies of Penn-
        I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out     sylvania.
the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident                Let freedom ring – from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
that all men are created equal.                                                       Let freedom ring – from the curvaceous slopes of California.
        I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons              But not only that.
of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit              Let freedom ring – from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
down together at the table of brotherhood.                                            Let freedom ring – from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
        I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a                  Let freedom ring – from every hill and molehill of Mississippi,
state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of       from every mountainside, let freedom ring!
oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.                And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when
        I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a    we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by        every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's chil-
the content of their character. I have a dream today!                         dren, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and

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