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ORIGINAL: azinorum
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the banks of the river Tigris, the sons of Shias, Kurds, Christians and the sons of Sunnis, Turkomans, Yezidis will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the City of Baghdad, a city sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of sectarian violence, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that all our little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the their religious beliefs but by the content of their character.
I had a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Baghdad, with its vicious secular violence, with its leaders having their lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Baghdad little Shia boys and Shia girls will be able to join hands with little Sunni boys and Sunni girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every city, town and village shall be exalted, and every desert 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 Mesopotamia shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."
I have a dream today!
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!