Dr. Martin Luther King’s Dream Speech Still Strikes A Chord

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We’re closing in on the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech from August 1963.

On the King holiday, which was started in 1986 after being signed into law by President Ronald Reagan, we offer a look at King’s most famous speech — his address at the march on Washington, D.C.

Parts of it are dated, which speaks to the progress we’ve made in America in the last five decades. However, there is still a lot of ringing truth in Dr. King’s message pointing to the work that still remains for American society.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

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.

I have a dream today.