Just a bit of trivia. Today is the day when in 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic "I have a dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial, culminating the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
The audio and text of the speech are available online and the video is also available on Google video. The sad part of course is that in my lifetime, I don't remember any leader having delivered a speech that comes even close to giving one goose pimples the way King does. There's some real passion, a clarion call for action and accountability ("we have come to cash a check"), evocation of Biblical references, emphatic repetition (especially of the key phrase "I have a dream"), and most of all a compelling vision of the future where all men and women will be treated as equal.
Here is an interesting analysis of the speech.
Awe-inspiring! Thanks for the post...
ReplyDeleteAll: And what would we not give to have just one leader inspire an entire people. Also great for perspective. We crib about corruption and potholes and there was a time when an entire people were denied basic human dignity simply based on the color of their skin.
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