Given its enormous place in American and world history, it is an oratorical masterpiece, and aside from its social impact and spiritual lineage – Christ, Thoreau, Gandhi, King, Mandela, Aung San Su Kyi – it is one of the most remarkable speeches ever delivered.

Today, as the United States pauses to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the words of the civil rights icon echo across the nation

I Have a Dream” — on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. But his D.C. performance wasn’t the speech’s premiere.

In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleared Congress, and President Ronald Reagan signed it.

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.” -- Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865.

White Plains collector Seth Kaller has an original copy of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, which doesn't mention the dream. King improvised it.

I Have a Dream' Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Brunch at Spady Museum

Aim High Academy I Have a Dream Meet, held Jan. 17-19 at the Cox Business Convention Center, celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy by inspiring young gymnasts to pursue their dreams while raising funds for scholarships.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day honors the legacy of the civil rights activist who strove for equal rights and is most known for his “I Have A Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King Jr. was a pivotal voice throughout the civil rights movement and influenced many others to speak and march alongside him.

Aim High Academy is hosting its annual I Have a Dream Meet fundraiser over Martin Luther King Jr. weekend to honor his legacy and to help raise money for their

— Martin Luther King Jr.‘s “I Have a Dream” speech

Where King's vision was rooted in the American dream, in liberty and justice for all, Trump’s is fueled by pettiness, vengeance, division, and flagrant inequality of justice in action.