You men make them believe.
That light--and that promise--was America's Bill of Rights.
And tonight, even as we speak, American men are fighting in a strange land, a half a world away.
Tonight, with prayerful hope for the future, we have come here to light the Nation's Christmas tree.
In a short time I am going across the street a few hundred yards to light the Nation's Christmas tree.
We are in a time of testing for our Nation, a time of uncertainty for our country.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
But we can say that aggression has been blunted, and that peace, with honor, will surely follow.
Few documents in all the history of freedom have ever so illuminated the paths of men.
Exactly 175 years ago today America sent another light out into the world.
Here at home, in our own land, more than 20 million Negroes still yearn for the rights and the dignity that the rest of us take for granted.