50 years ago on 28 August, Rev. Martin Luther King gave his famous “I have a dream ” speech in Washington D.C.
Watch it here:
I have a dream that my four 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.
[…]that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
Read the transcript here.
BONO, U2’s frontman, wrote his beautiful tribute song “Pride (in the Name of Love)“, one of the band’s most famous hits.
And here are the words on M.L.K.’s grave in Atlanta:
