英文国旗下演讲稿作文 2024 年 5 篇 英文国旗下演讲稿作文大全(1) Hello everyone! i am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. five score years ago, a great american, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today , signed the emancipation proclamation. this momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. it came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. but one hundred years later, the negro still is not free. one hundred years later , the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. one hundred years later , the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. one hundred years later , the negro is still languished in the corners of american society and finds himself an exile in his own land. and so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. in a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. when the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the constitution and the declaration of independence , they were signing a promissory note to which every american was to fall heir. this note was a promise that all men , yes , black men as well as white men , would be guaranteed the “unalienable rights” of “life , liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” it is obvious today that america has defaulted on this promissory note , insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. instead of honoring this sacred obligation , americ...