'Dad would be very proud that people are coming together to stand up against injustice. But certainly very sad that we're still attempting to get justice,' Martin Luther King III says 57 years after his father spoke the words 'I have a dream.'
Martin Luther King III was five years old when his father stood before a quarter of a million people from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and spoke the words "I have a dream."
So King will be in the nation's capital on Friday, along with the Rev. Al Sharpton and tens of thousands of other expected attendees, for another March on Washington.MLK's March on Washington speech foretold this seismic momentThe march will be a commemoration of a seminal moment in US history. It will also be also a commitment to continuing many of the same fights: ending police violence, dismantling systemic racism and ensuring access to the ballot box.
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