- I am honored to join with you today in what will go down in history as a great demonstration for freedom.
- Many years ago, a great man named Abraham Lincoln changed the world by signing the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous action is important because it declared that all enslaved people in Confederate states were to be forever free.
- But years later, we still have many problems. Years later, the life of the Negro (adjective or a group descriptor) people in our community is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
- The architect (word for leader) of the civil rights movement (name of a community) made a promise. They promised that all men would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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