people that have gone on before us. 50 years ago today the symbolic shadow of this great emancipator, abraham lincoln, my father, the great liberator, stood in this very spot and declared to this nation his dream to let freedom ring for all people who were being man manacled by a system of segregation and discrimination. 50 years ago he commissioned us to go back to our various cities, towns, hamlets, states, and villages and let freedom ring. the reverb ration of the sound of that freedom message has amplified and echoed since 1963. through the decades and coast to coast throughout this nation and even around the world. we are summoned back to these