QUOTATIONS

Memorable quotations of my lifetime.



"I have a dream."


-the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.


on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

August 28, 1963





For me, August, 1963 was the Summer between high school and college. John F. Kennedy was president. He was assassinated in the Fall.





This quotation is actually the name given by others to Reverend King's speech--its most famous line. Possibly, no speech more effected my life than this one. Possibly, no speech more effected my generation than this one because of the impact it had on society.

I heard this line and a few others a day or two later. It never got more than a minute on the evening news that day. I never heard the whole speech until some years later. It was voted by academicians to be the greatest speech of the Twentieth Century. You can read or listen to it at the following site. Its worth the time.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm