Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. says that when we allow freedom to ring from every city, state, and hamlet across the nation, it will help speed up the day when all of God's children—black and white, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics—will be able to join hands and sing together with the feeling of being truly free, as in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last, Free at last, Great God a-mighty, We are free at last." This phrase symbolizes the hope for liberty, equality, and the end of racial and social injustice across the United States. Examples he gives include freedom ringing from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, the mighty mountains of New York, the Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, the Rockies of Colorado, the slopes of California, Stone Mountain of Georgia, Lookout Mountain of Tennessee, and every hill and molehill of Mississippi—places representing every part of America. Through this, Dr. King envisions a future where racial harmony and justice are realized, and people of all races and religions unite in freedom and brotherhood.
