But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop. Like anybody I would like to live a long life, longevity has its place but I'm not concerned about that now And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.
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King started slowly, and stuck close to his prepared text. As he moved towards his final words, it seemed that he, too, could sense that he was falling short. King was winding up what would have been a well-received but, by his standards, fairly unremarkable oration. Jackson had seen him deliver the dream refrain in Detroit in June and clearly it had moved her.
I say to you today, my friends. King had been using the refrain for well over a year. Damned good. A few in the crowd were unimpressed. Just about every one of them stood up there dreaming. Martin Luther King went on and on talking about his dream. I sat there thinking that in Canton we never had time to sleep, much less dream.
But most were ebullient. And he explained it. It was an all-American speech. Fifty years on, the speech enjoys both national and global acclaim. This is not part of that dream. But few of those in the movement thought at the time that it would be the speech by which King would be remembered 50 years later.
He capped off the day perfectly. He did what everybody wanted him to do and expected him to do. Bates spoke briefly in the place of Myrlie Evers, widow of the murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers , and Parks and several others were recognized and asked to take a bow.
A white labor leader and a rabbi were among the 10 speakers on stage that day. King was preceded by nine other speakers, notably including civil rights leaders like A. Philip Randolph and a young John Lewis , the future congressman from Georgia.
The most prominent white speaker was Walter Reuther , head of the United Automobile Workers, a powerful labor union. America must not remain silent. Constitution, Shakespeare and the Bible.
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