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NARRATOR: The theme, the keynote, the thought uppermost in minds of all here today is best set forth by Dr. King. He sums up a day the capital will long remember.

DR MARTIN LUTHER KING: I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners, will they be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream.

NARRATOR: Washington, D.C. 1963. Democracy speaks in a mighty voice.