I read the entirety in college. It was in a textbook I used to own. That in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, which is also very much worth reading (found here: http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.h... )
Why You’ve Never Read “I Have A Dream”
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#12http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=i+have+a+dream&p... thank god for those who don't respect overzealous copyright holders.
Indeed, YouTube was my first answer to this. We need more Huey P. Newton and Malcolm X for the issues of today (regulatory capture and the shredded constitution, political campaign finance, income/opportunity inequality being the main meta-issues), I think, rather than more MLK.
MLK is just as useful for today's issues. This seems the same to me:
Perhaps a more tragic recognition of reality took place when it became clear to me that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksile...
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#13http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=i+have+a+dream&p... thank god for those who don't respect overzealous copyright holders.
Indeed, YouTube was my first answer to this. We need more Huey P. Newton and Malcolm X for the issues of today (regulatory capture and the shredded constitution, political campaign finance, income/opportunity inequality being the main meta-issues), I think, rather than more MLK.
You're saying we need more people who physically harm others?
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#14You can read it here http://www.archives.gov/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf
So, not hidden behind a copyright wall?
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#15The counter argument, though, is "How many people have read Lincoln's Gettysburg Address"?
Many know "Four score and seven years ago", but how many know "we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground"?
I think this says more about our "sound-bite" culture than how protective the family is of the audio.
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#16Heard it during MLK Day on NPR, was absolutely floored. Also, MLK's comments on the Vietnam War were remarkably prescient, and apply just fine to our terrible wars today. If you still believe that the USG is not, in places and at times, terribly evil and corrupt, you probably don't know about the USG's efforts to kill MLK: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/31/mlk.fbi.conspiracy/
It doesn't sound like they tried to kill him. They tried to prove an alignment with the communist party (and failed miserably). I can't believe the FBI honestly thought a note would drive him to suicide.
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#17I remember watching it on some encyclopedia product that came loaded on my HP back sometime around '95. They also had presidential speeches and the Hindenburg crash among other events. I thought I was the coolest kid ever to have access to such historical information at my home; that so much data could be stored on a simple CD.
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#18On the Media did a great story on this [1]. If you've got 13 minutes to spare, they discuss the copyright issue and the actual construction and delivery of the speech itself.
[1] http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/jan/13/dr-martin-luther-king-...
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#19I remember hearing the story of how the text was written and at the last minute, as copies were being made, the lawyer for King added the Circle C and copyright info. Apparently the King family has benefitted financially by that last minute addition.
Frankly, I can't imagine a better way to reward Dr. King, and his family, for such an amazing event and turning point in our history.
It's not like the money is going to AT&T or Microsoft.
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#20In 9th grade I memorized and delivered the I Have a Dream speech for my English Honors program. I memorized it by reading it over and over again and I also found an audio recording that I burned onto a CD and listened to 10 times every night. It took me 16 minutes to deliver the whole speech (in costume). I have no idea where I found the audio recording now, although NPR sounds right.