“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'”

– Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., addressing the crowd gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the 1963 March on Washington 50 years ago yesterday.

This article appears in August 30 • 2013.

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