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“I Have a Dream”: Martin Luther King Urges Consistency to Founding Principles
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“I Have a Dream”: Martin Luther King Urges Consistency to Founding Principles

By Michael A. LaFerrara

Aug 28, 2013
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On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous speech, “I Have a Dream,” in which he reaffirmed the principles and promises of the Declaration of Independence.

Noting that “One hundred years [after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation] the life of the Negro is still badly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the ch…

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