Also we shall look at his famous "I Have A Dream" speech held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. which along with Winston Churchill's "We Shall Never Surrender" speech during World War II, would become one of the most prominent speeches of the 20th century. ... It was from here that Martin Luther King, Jr, would gradually shed the position of quiet observer and become the leader of a people who were in desperate need of someone who could lead them together into a new era of equal opportunity and equal rights. ... King and his wife were desperately hoping for about a s...

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