Martin Luther King Remembered at Lincoln Memorial 1963

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The news says there were many symbolic 'marches' today in memory of Reverend King. Especially large ones in So Carolina and TX. Today Martin Luther King Day, Monday, January 18, 2016, the stock market was closed, no mail delivery, the banks were closed. I hope that in many places across the country, Dr.King's I Have a Dream Speech will again be heard. And why not, at the same time, at least the Gettysburg Address for comparison. I like King's first paragraph "It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity". There's stirring visual and bright animation in those words. Other phrases there are more familiar to most folks, and still voice a hopeful message that is half prophecy, half sermon,

"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."

And I like the invocation, his very religious closing, in a strong preacher's cadence,

“Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"