"I have a dream ... It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream ... I have a dream that one day in the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and civil rights leader who led campaigns against racial segregation in the United States. His leadership of nonviolent protest helped secure major civil rights legislation in the 1960s.