Quotes About I Have A Dream Speech

#1. Everyone knows, even the smallest kid knows about Martin Luther King Jr., can say his most famous moment was that 'I have a dream speech. No one can go further than one sentence. All we know is that this had a dream. We do not know what the dream was'.

Henry Louis Taylor Jr.

#2. Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement's focus.

Charles B. Rangel

#3. It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue with more than 100,000 people and delivered the first major public iteration of his "I Have A Dream" speech, two months before he did it in Washington.

David Maraniss

#4. Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

Andrew Young

#5. It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.

Jesse Jackson

#6. Martin Luther King gave the 'I Have a Dream' speech, not the 'I Have a Plan' speech.

Simon Sinek

#7. Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.

Abigail Washburn

#8. When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#10. Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.

Aberjhani

#11. Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.

Barnett Newman

#12. What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. It's changed so much.There were no blogs when I was on Buffy. There were no weekly magazines, aside from People. Now, to be able keep your secrets for your show is so hard.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#14. I'd love to go out with you, but I'd hate to deprive some village of its idiot.

Lois Greiman

#15. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#16. .....every form puts a limit on mystery

Jalaluddin Rumi

#17. In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.

Jeannette Walls

#18. A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand.

Alexander Calder

#19. We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#20. Through darkness you have come to your hope, and have now all your desire. Use well the days.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#21. We're not dreamers. We're awaking from a dream turning into a nightmare. We're not destroying anything. We're watching the system destroy itself.

Slavoj Zizek

#22. There is nothing better than expressions in words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.

Mike White

#24. I is sometimes hearing faraway music coming from the stars in the sky.' A

Roald Dahl

#25. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#26. A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.

George Santayana

#27. In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long.

Khalil Gibran

#28. You need to take small steps when you dream big dreams. I am a published author with dyslexia, a professional speaker who was in speech therapy for three years as a child because I had a lisp; and a slow stiff kid from the suburbs who became an All-Pro in the NFL.

Karl Mecklenburg

#29. On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!

Vinton Cerf

#30. In every stump speech I give, I speak about the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make us poorer - they make us better off.

Mitt Romney

#31. History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.

Terry Eagleton

#32. Man is born to dream, to be enlightened, to connect and to be fulfilled. Managers are too.

Stan Slap

#33. I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

Peggy Noonan