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Q: Louisa Bertman for the Boston Globe 
  
 Fifty years ago today, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. electrified the nation with his “I Have A Dream” speech — and helped establish himself as one of America’s founding fathers. 
  
 A half-century later, King stands equal to Jefferson, Adams, Madison, and Hamilton, the people who invented America, designed its government, and shaped its unique democratic experiment. Taylor Branch, the incomparable civil rights historian, has called him “a new founding father.” An insightful essay in Time Magazine by another great historian, Jon Meacham, also awards King that stellar status. 
  
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 Here is why I believe King is the most significant American since Lincoln in his impact on how we live and work together in the world’s oldest democracy. 
  
 King changed America forever. It was largely his movement that finally extinguished Jim Crow in the South, ending the overt racism and segregation that had persisted for a century after the Emancipation Proclamation. In a very real way, King picked up where Lincoln had left America at the end of the Civil War. That America had yet to overcome what Condoleezza Rice calls the “original sin” of our Constitution: African-Americans were not treated as fully human. 
  
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 King led that fight more skillfully and convincingly than any American in our history. He offered a hopeful, transcendent idea of how America could be truly great. Meacham observed in Time that during his memorable speech at the Aug. 28, 1963, march on Washington, “King — like Jefferson and Lincoln before him — projected an ideal vision of an exceptional nation . . . In doing so, King defined the best of the nation as surely as Jefferson did in Philadelphia in 1776 or Lincoln did at Gettysburg in 1863.” 
  
 King also found a way to touch the conscience of white Americans all too complacent about the need for change during the tumultuous decades of the civil rights struggle from Birmingham to Little Rock, Selma, and beyond. It was not preordained that the most important black leader would wave a flag of nonviolent civil disobedience and redemption rather than hatred and revenge. 
  
 His message even reached places where whites knew precious few black neighbors, such as the privileged town where I grew up, Wellesley. I have no memory of King’s great speech at the Lincoln Memorial, which occurred when I was 7. But I retain a clear and sharp image from five years later, when our enlightened sixth-grade teacher, Jean Barton, wheeled a television into our classroom in April 1968. She asked us to watch the funeral of a great man, Martin Luther King. In the years that followed, when I went looking for a true hero, I found one in King and his ringing message of what was clearly right and clearly wrong. 
  
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 In many ways, King’s most lasting legacy is the America we know today — far from perfect, still halting on the question of race, but light years from the hateful South of Bull Connor, George Wallace, and the pathetic nostalgia for the failed cause of the Confederacy. King created in its place the America that chose Barack Obama, now leading a country turning an irreversible corner to redeem the promise of our founding. 
  
 Throughout the lonely years of the civil rights struggle, King embraced the power of language in his ministry to the nation. In reworking a powerful statement by the nineteenth century Boston abolitionist, the Rev. Theodore Parker, Kingnever let us forget a central truth that Obama later evoked on the campaign trail in 2008: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” 
  
 It must have been this deep reservoir of faith that brought King to his brilliant, beautiful, lyrical, rousing vision on that hot day in Washington 50 years ago. 
  
 “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., founding father. ||||| Martin Luther King III is a human rights activist. 
  
 The massive turnout at Saturday’s march and rally at the Lincoln Memorial, commemorating the 1963 March on Washington and the wonderful spirit of all the participants, was a powerful testament to the enduring dream that my father, Martin Luther King Jr., shared with our nation and the world half a century ago. As we look back on the march, we are called not only to celebrate the legacy of that day but also to address the festering injustices of inequality, racism and poverty in this country. 
  
 Although significant progress has been made in some areas, too many Americans have inadequate opportunities to escape poverty, joblessness, discrimination, social neglect and violence. 
  
 The date of the ’63 march, Aug. 28, was chosen to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the brutal slaying of 14-year-old Emmett Till. The ensuing outcry helped to awaken a new era of protest against racial injustice. A half-century later, however, African American youth still have good reason to fear racially motivated violence. 
  
 When an unarmed 17-year-old walking home with Skittles can be brutally slain by an armed man — a man who had been told by police to leave the boy alone — and that man is acquitted of all charges, something is very wrong. The so-called “stand your ground” and “stop-and-frisk” laws that have been enacted in various states in recent years disproportionately abuse people of color. 
  
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 These ill-considered laws are a serious threat to the freedom and safety of all Americans. The appalling racial injustice inherent in the Trayvon Martin tragedy reminds us that there is still much to do. 
  
 Horrific gun violence in Chicago; Tucson; Aurora, Colo.; Newtown, Conn.; and Oak Creek, Wis., in recent years underscores the dramatic increase in bloodshed in our society over the past half-century, with children slain even in their schools. There is no way we can fulfill the dream of a peaceful society until we enact measured control of deadly weaponry; that includes background checks and a ban on the sale of assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition. 
  
 The theme for the 1963 March on Washington, “For Jobs and Freedom,” resonates a half-century later: Unacceptably high rates of joblessness are pervasive. July unemployment figures indicate that the jobless rate for African Americans is 12.6 percent, compared with 6.6 percent for white workers and 9.4 percent for Latino Americans. Discrimination in employment remains a relevant concern. 
  
 Fulfilling my father’s dream will also require our society to become one where everyone who wants a job at a decent wage can get one. Reforms are needed to stem the tide of outsourcing good jobs to other nations and to educate and train American workers to meet the challenges of the 21st-century world economy. Doing the latter would also help rebuild our nation. There is no question that a great deal of this country’s infrastructure is in urgent need of upgrade. Millions of Americans of all races are ready and willing to be part of the repair and modernization of our deteriorating roads, bridges, ports and rail systems. In meeting this challenge, millions of jobless people could achieve economic security for their families while helping to build a better America. A stimulus package to upgrade the nation’s infrastructure would surely prove a cost-effective investment in America’s future. 
  
 And if we truly want a strong and secure middle class, we must restore the ability of labor unions to organize and represent working people. 
  
 Perhaps the most powerful tool we have in the ongoing struggle for jobs and freedom is the ballot box. Since the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder, an avalanche of voter suppression measures in a number of states has aimed at disenfranchising African Americans, Latino Americans and students. On a deeper level, this is an assault on democracy because it seeks to establish voter suppression as a legitimate and permanent feature of the U.S. political system. Our challenge is to mobilize a new coalition of conscience to restore the Voting Rights Act, strengthen voting rights and broaden voter access in the legislatures of the 50 states. 
  
 As I reflect back, I can’t help but ask, what would Dad think? One thing I am certain he would do is work relentlessly to get us all to work together to address today’s most pressing issues. 
  
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 As I look forward, I can’t help but ask, what is each and every one of us doing to realize the dream of freedom, justice and equality for all? ||||| Few speeches echo across generations. When they do they share important characteristics. They are breathtakingly courageous, or uniquely of the moment, or both. They combine elements of drama, language and context with a manner of delivery that matches the message's significance. The speech that Martin Luther King made on 28 August 1963, to 250,000 Americans who had marched on Washington, was all these things. 
  
 It could hardly have been made in a more portentous setting, in the shadow of the Lincoln memorial in the heart of political Washington. It was the climax of hard months of protest against segregationist laws that kept African American kids out of colleges and coffee bars, women from sitting on buses, families from choosing the best schools. Protest was broken up by the kind of brutality that still clings to the name of places like Birmingham and Selma. 
  
 President John F Kennedy, fearing riots, had asked civil rights leaders to call off the march. When it went ahead, the FBI installed a panic button in the sound system to cut off inflammatory speech, helicopters hovered above and 19,000 troops were on standby. Dr King himself, a small figure behind a forest of microphones, was the last of 10 speakers. It seems likely that in its early parts, his speech may read better now than it sounded at the time. That at least is one explanation for the singer Mahalia Jackson shouting out, "Tell 'em about the dream, Martin!", prompting Dr King to set aside his prepared text and launch into one of the most famous perorations ever delivered. 
  
 But there are other reasons why it is such a milestone. The speech was equally persuasive to its two audiences. For black listeners, it was about economic justice and the nation's default on Lincoln's promissory note guaranteeing all men the unalienable rights of life, liberty and justice. But for the many white people who had marched in solidarity, it was at least as much an amplification of a television broadcast made three months earlier, where President Kennedy lifted the fight against racism out of the politics of rights and redefined it as a question of morality. 
  
 Within two years of what was soon known as "the Dream speech", civil rights and voting laws were finally enacted. Lincoln's promissory note was, in legislative terms, honoured at last. Yet, 50 years on, it is bitterly apparent that it is still not honoured in the everyday lives of African Americans. A black president, yes, but unemployment levels, earnings and the justice system all indicate a society where equality is in retreat. Speeches can only do so much. The dream remains unfinished business: but that only reinforces the power of that moment when Dr King found the words to make people be better than they were, and the speech's enduring power to inspire. |||||
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Fifty years later, tributes to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech—and reflections on the speech and the man—abound. A sampling: King was a modern-day founding father, "equal to Jefferson, Adams, Madison, and Hamilton," writes Nicholas Burns in the Boston Globe. He helped to eliminate Jim Crow laws, changing the country permanently. He preached nonviolence and hopefulness "rather than hatred and revenge." Ultimately, he helped to create the America that elected a black president. And all of that makes King "the most significant American since Lincoln." And his speech is one of the rare ones that has the power to "echo across generations," declares a Guardian editorial. That's because it spoke, powerfully, to both black and white listeners. And though "the dream remains unfinished business," that fact simply "reinforces the power of that moment when Dr. King found the words to make people be better than they were, and the speech's enduring power to inspire." In the Washington Post, Martin Luther King III agrees that his father's work is not yet done. "Too many Americans have inadequate opportunities to escape poverty, joblessness, discrimination, social neglect, and violence," he writes, and "African-American youth still have good reason to fear racially motivated violence." He concludes with a simple question: "What is each and every one of us doing to realize the dream of freedom, justice, and equality for all?" Click for more on the celebration of King's speech.