#How long is the i have a dream speech full#
Both "I Have A Dream" and Barack Obama's 2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote that launched his successful campaign for president, out of nowhere, were 16 minutes and 11 seconds long! "I Have A Dream" is a flawless speech and on this momentous 50th Anniversary, it is my pleasure to share the full analysis from my book, Words That Shook The World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events. And his speechwriting touched a young politician so profoundly that he ended up writing what has to be regarded as the 2nd most historically significant speech by an African-American in the exact length as Dr. I Have a Dream is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. ‘I Have A Dream‘ is an unforgettable speech delivered (given) by Martin Luther King to millions of American blacks and whites on August 28, 1963.This speech represents the hopes and dreams of all American blacks who have been struggling for their rights and freedom. Martin Luther King, I realized, moved his people and the nation not only by being one of our most gloriously charismatic speakers, but because he was one of America's greatest speechwriters. King do that mere mortal speakers don't? I remember analyzing the speech on a flight from LA to NY and feeling a bit uncomfortable about it as, more than once, I was literally moved to tears, just by the beauty, depth and soul of the words themselves. 2) It lasts 17 minutes and is widely considered to have been drafted in New York and then in Washington in the hours before the rally. Excerpt from "Words That Shook The World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events" One of the greatest thrills of writing a book on the 20 most inspiring speeches of The 20th Century was to sit down and actually go through "I Have A Dream," word by word, and attempt to explain why it mesmerized 250,000 and changed the course of American history. 'I Have a Dream': 10 Martin Luther King speech facts 1) The speech is known as I Have a Dream but those words were never in the original draft, they were ad libbed on the day.
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