So even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of

its creed.

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and

the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the

heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an

oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will

not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

That was the Reverend Martin Luther King speaking from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on the

28th of August 1963, to a vast audience of almost perhaps it has been estimated a quarter

of a million people who had joined a great march on Washington to demand civil rights

for black people in America and Dominic, we are just down from the Lincoln Memorial.

We have just been up to visit the very spot on the steps where Martin Luther King gave

that speech.

If you hear people walking by, if you hear dogs, noise of wind, planes, whatever, that is

why.

And the theme of today is that speech, probably one of the most famous speeches in American

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