{"text":"In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America’s ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["black-history-month","civil-rights","dreamday","human-rights","i-have-a-dream-speech","let-freedom-ring","martin-luther-king-jr","mlkdream50","syrian-civil-war"],"id":43662,"author_id":"Aberjhani"}