Randall Kennedy
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I think, unfortunately, the speech has been embraced by advertisers and corporate America.
It's been heard so many times that it sort of has been made to suffer from what some people might view as overexposure.
It has, but people have tried to make it into a cliche.
The fact of the matter is it's the sentiment behind I Have a Dream.
Yeah, I'll associate myself with that.
And anybody wants to see some great oratory, go watch.
And Martin Luther King Jr., I mean, he gave โ
you know, several great speeches.
You know, his first speech, the first speech that he gave as a civil rights leader, the Holt Street Baptist Church, 1955, at the beginning of the Montgomery bus boycott, which was virtually an extemporaneous speech, was one of his greatest.
And he was, I think, 26 years old.
Great.
His last speech, you know, his mountaintop speech, great speech, but I have a dream.
I love it.
I will associate myself with those sentiments any day of the week.
I have that hope.
And I think that the sentiments that Martin Luther King Jr.
expressed in August 1963, that represents...
the best of American life.
And I think it's a, you know, do I want to see that come to pass?
Yeah, I want to see that come to pass.