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" As historical amnesia tries to wrap the event in cotton-candy memory, it&amp;#039;s important to remember that, 50 years ago, the &amp;quot;I Have A Dream&amp;quot; peroration on the Mall was not the first time Dr. King went to that well. (&amp;quot;Tell &amp;#039;em about the dream, Martin,&amp;quot; Mahalia Jackson urged him, because she knew that, too, and it kicked off the extemporaneous portion of the speech.) A few months before what we must all remember was the March For Jobs And Freedom in Washington, King ran through that same riff, with some elements that did not appear in Washington, but which give a clearer idea of what his vision for the movement he led, and the country it would transform, was all about. He stood before a big audience in Detroit and, as the great radio host Mark Thompson would put it, Dr. King made it plain.  I have a dream that one day, right down in Georgia and Mississippi and Alabama, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to live together as brothers. I have a dream this afternoon (I have a dream) that one day, [Applause] one day little white children and little Negro children will be able to join hands as brothers and sisters. I have a dream this afternoon that one day, [Applause] that one day men will no longer burn down houses and the church of God simply because people want to be free. I have a dream this afternoon (I have a dream) that there will be a day that we will no longer face the atrocities that Emmett Till had to face or Medgar Evers had to face, that all men can live with dignity. I have a dream this afternoon (Yeah) that my four little children, that my four little children will not come up in the same young days that I came up within, but they will be judged on the basis of the content of their character, not the color of their skin. [Applause] I have a dream this afternoon that one day right here in Detroit, Negroes will be able to buy a house or rent a house anywhere that their money will carry them and they will be able to get a job. [Applause] (That&amp;#039;s right) Yes, I have a dream this afternoon that one day in this land the words of Amos will become real and &amp;quot;justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.&amp;quot; I have a dream this evening that one day we will recognize the words of Jefferson that &amp;quot;all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.&amp;quot; I have a dream this afternoon. [Applause] I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and &amp;quot;every valley shall be exalted, and every hill shall be made low; the crooked places shall be made straight, and the rough places plain; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.&amp;quot; [Applause] I have a dream this afternoon that the brotherhood of man will become a reality in this day. And with this faith I will go out and carve a tunnel of hope through the mountain of despair. With this faith, I will go out with you and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. With this faith, we will be able to achieve this new day when all of God&amp;#039;s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing with the Negroes in the spiritual of old: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!   He was about not only political freedom, but the economic freedom necessary to make political freedom viable in the life of every American, and that economic freedom was not about deregulation and the jackboot of the Endangered Species List, but about a living wage, and opportunity, and economic justice in the workplace. Hell, he died leading a sanitation workers strike five years later. We should all remember this, too, especially Bill Clinton, who gave a nice speech today, but who did sign the more-punitive-than-necessary welfare-reform bill so he could get re-elected, at the urging of Dick Morris, and who did toss Lani Guinier over the side, and who did say, as a Democratic president, that &amp;quot;The era of big government is over.&amp;quot; Some dreams stay that way. Also, not a single Republican was willing to get up on the podium and speak today? Not one? I do so despair of The Rebranding. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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