‘I have a dream’ | The Living Martin Luther King’s speech January 21, 2009
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The father of the modern civil rights movement in the United States, Martin Luther King was born 15 January 1929 and died on 4 April 1968. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, he died when he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. This is Dr. Martin Luther King‘s famous speech which immortalized the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, the hope of the black Americans and still give inspiration today. Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963.
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.
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