Friday 23 Book Club: I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King

After the successful discussion on "The Happy Prince", this will be our next text. But before that, as an extra information about Oscar Wilde's text, I tell you that the short story we discussed about last meeting, was the first translation that Jorge Luis Borges made. He did it when he was... 9 years old. It was published in "El País" newspaper, and people at that time thought it was his father's work. So I guess that Borges, Argentina's most important writer of the last century, must have found something special on it. Don't you think? And talking about the new text, it is related to one of the subjects we discussed about at the movie club: discrimination. It is Martin Luther King's speech called "I have a dream". Speeches in general are interesting, and this one is one of the most important and well-known of the twentieth century.You can read it here: http://www.drmartinlutherkingjr.com/dream.htm
Or, even better, listen to it here: http://blog.lextext.com/_attachments/1676937/IHaveADream.mp3
Or watch the video here: I Have a Dream Speech on You Tube with different footage cuts(remember that NLP says that words are only 7% of the message: the rest is body language, and the way words are spoken: tone, speed, volume, pauses, etc.). Some extras, in case you are interested in reading a little more:
Info about the speech: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_have_a_dream
Info about the author: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.
The meeting is next Friday but, as the speech is short, you are not going to have problems to read it or listen to it before that day.