“How to tell about this aristocratic word sorcerer with a commoner’s eye?
How to make you hear our tears as he welcomed our souls and held our hearts in his hands?
This Martin Luther King man … came toward us with the staccato speech and rhythm of the spirit.
And his passion entered this American bloodstream.
He no longer spoke for himself. Something began to move through him.
He levitated language and we wept, laughed, hummed till time stood still.
He has summoned the spirit of all out ancestors who had suffered and yet survived, and did it with dignity and grace and order and beauty.
He told us that we had affirmed life, that our eyes had abandoned death, defeat.
That our feet were dancing silver.
In August 1963, we heard the thunder of angels”.
Sonia Sanchez – author, poet
Courtesy Time magazine – ‘I HAVE A DREAM ‘ANNIVERSARY ISSUE
March on Washington
In a speech delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington, Reverand Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. invoked the promises made in the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address, calling on the nation to deliver on the promissory note of equal rights made but not yet paid to African Americans.
An estimated 250,000 March participants, as well as a national television audience, heard the speech that has since passed into history as a defining moment of the Civil Rights movement.
http://www.religionnews.com/2013/08/16/video-martin-luther-king-i-have-a-dream-speech-august-28-1963/