Once a Dream, Always a Dream - Is Martin Luther King's dream still alive today?

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Once a dream, Always a dream Martin Luther King Junior, the influential American civil-rights leader, gave his famous speech "I have a dream" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th, 1963. King spoke of an America where "little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers." Sadly, King was killed before he was able to see …

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…forever keep King's dream, a dream. Over forty years after Doctor King's speech in front of the Lincoln memorial in Washington D.C, his words continue to remain ignored. The nation continues to follow its troubled past with unfairly putting one person in front of another based only on skin color. The dream of Martin Luther King Junior that the nation lives up to the creed its fore founders wrote, is only that, a dream.