Gold ribbon curls upward from a spool on a small blue hill beneath a pale sky.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring ... Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill ...

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker calls for freedom to sound out across the land, naming one region after another and moving from grand mountains to the smallest rises. The repetition builds a sweeping vision in which no place is too high or too humble to carry the call.

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