Full Text: Congressman John Lewis Speech DNC
August 28, 2008 by Pelikan · 1 Comment
Filed under: Democratic National Convention, Presidential Campaign 2008
Filed under: Democratic National Convention, Presidential Campaign 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 05:15 PM
On this day 45 years ago, a son of America, a citizen of the world, a peaceful warrior, Martin Luther King Jr., stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and said, “I have a dream today, a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.”
He recalled that, “when the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,” they issued a call for justice. And they founded our democracy on a mandate for freedom, equality and human dignity. Read more
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