I Have a Dream
Aspirational speech opener
"I Have a Dream" is the title and refrain of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 speech delivered at the March on Washington, widely regarded as a masterpiece of American oratory.
The phrase evokes King's vision of racial equality and justice, and has become shorthand for aspirational idealism about social progress: She gave an "I Have a Dream" kind of speech about what the company could become.
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- equalitySame status for all
- freedomAbsence of constraint
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