"Today as we celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., a familiar anaphora will ring out time and again: "I have a dream." And in some ways, that's unfortunate.
The phrase is powerful and historically significant--no doubt about that. Yet its power and significance have been worn thin in recent years through repeated use as a civil rights sound bite and a journalistic cliché.
The impassioned speech that Dr. King delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963 is one of the great orations of the past century. In addition to serving as a central text of the Civil Rights Movement, the "I Have a Dream" speech is a model of effective communication. In fact, it's one of the most commonly anthologized works in composition textbooks." Read more here at About.com Grammar and Composition. Link to complete speech and quiz included.
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