I Have A Dream By Martin Luther King Jr.

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I have a dream' by Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most memorable speeches of not only the civil rights movement, but of all time. Delivered more than 50 years, in August 1963, steps from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. The key message in the speech is that all people are created equal. Although this was not the case in America at the time, King felt it must be the case for the future. Knowing that three different news stations would be in attendance that day, King wrote a speech in advance. Moved by the emotion of the crowd, however, he went off script and began preaching from the heart.In the final passages of the speech, King compares his dreams about the success of the struggle for civil rights with the larger idea of the "American