Using familiar language to increase his connection to Abraham Lincoln and the Bible, Dr. Martin Luther King spoke of freedom, today, to an increasingly excited black, and white, crowd at the end of the March on Washington.

"I have a dream..." King echoed again and again. "It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream... I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the promise of its creed."

Calls for righteousness, justice and hope echoed over the tranquil pool as audience members eagerly listened to King's soothing tones rising to crescendo in the lyrics of a hymn.