Racial equality

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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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream

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Topic

Racial equality Equality Civil rights

Speaker

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source

I Have a Dream

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "I Have a Dream." March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. 28 Aug. 1963, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, USA.

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream

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Topic

Racial equality Political reconciliation

Speaker

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source

I Have a Dream

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "I Have a Dream." March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. 28 Aug. 1963, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, USA.

People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true... No. The only tired I was was tired of giving in.

Rosa Parks

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Topic

Civil rights Standing up for what's right Fighting for justice Racial equality Equality American politics

Author

Rosa Parks

Source

My Story

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Parks, Rosa. Rosa Parks: My Story. Dial Books, 1992, ch. 8.

We Negroes love our country. We fought for it. We ask only that we be treated as well as those who fought against it.

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Racial equality

Speaker

Frederick Douglass

Source

Speeches of Frederick Douglass

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

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Original Citation

Douglass, Frederick. Speech at the World's Columbian Exposition. World's Columbian Exposition. 25 Aug. 1893, Chicago, IL, USA.

Current Citation

Douglass, Frederick. Quoted in From Battlefields Rising: How The Civil War Transformed American Literature, written by Randall Fuller. Oxford University Press, 2014.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for one hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter, and to write it in the books of law.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Topic

Racial equality Equality Civil rights American politics

Speaker

Lyndon B. Johnson

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Johnson, Lyndon B. First address to Congress as President. 27 Nov. 1963, US Capital Building, Washington, DC, USA.