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  • The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.

  • Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

    Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963
  • Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

    I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
  • Rich people march on Washington every day.

  • I believe what Martin Luther King Jr. believed. You remember what the title of the March on Washington was? "Jobs and Freedom." What King understood is that you have to deal with the economic issues as well as the political issues and the civil rights issues.

    Jobs   Kings   Believe  
    Source: billmoyers.com
  • I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

    Dream   Kings   Children  
    Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963
  • I was born the day before the March on Washington. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Everybody in my neighborhood was a Democrat. We just didn't have any Republicans, because anyone running as a Republican was very out of touch with what our community needed.

    Source: www.elle.com
  • 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 equal

    Speech at Civil Rights March in Washington, 28 Aug. 1963, in New York Times 29 Aug. 1963, p. 21
  • 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 together at the table of brotherhood.

    Dream   Kings   Son  
    Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963
  • I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to contribute in the best way I possibly could.

  • I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'

  • Being a progressive himself, Franklin Roosevelt was talking about the fact that we should provide jobs for everyone who wants one. People do have a right to live in decent housing. They do have a right to education. FDR was preaching this gospel in the '30s, and Dr. Martin Luther King did the same thing in the 1960s with the Poor People's March on Washington. Folks in this country have these rights and it's the job of this country to answer this call.

    Country   Kings   Jobs  
    Source: www.glamour.com
  • And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

    Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963
  • Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

    Dream   Kings   Kids  
  • We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided! Let's fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us.

    "Donald Trump once called Electoral College 'a disaster'; now says it's 'actually genius'" by Jennifer Earl, www.cbsnews.com. November 10, 2016.
  • We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.

  • When all you can think of is your own personal problems, you have nothing to give to your society. If you're trying to figure out where your next meal is coming from, you can't go march on Washington.

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