I Have a Dream
by Martin Luther King Jr.(1963)
Novelc. 3 pages
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
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by Martin Luther King Jr.(1963)
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Martin Luther King Jr.(1963)
King delivered this speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to a quarter million people, and to the millions more who watched on television. The prepared text gave way, partway through, to improvisation: Mahalia Jackson called out 'Tell them about the dream, Martin,' and he did. The rhetoric draws on the Bible, the Constitution, and the Negro spiritual tradition, building through repetition toward a vision of justice that has not yet arrived. The speech is a sermon, a political document, and a work of literature. It is also a promise that America has yet to keep.