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Friday, August 27, 2021

On this Day in 1963, Martin Luther King Endorsed Americanism

On August 28, 1963, Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech to a burgeoning March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. I commemorated that day in an article for The Objective Standard, “I Have a Dream”: Martin Luther King Urges Consistency to Founding Principles. It's worth reading and listening to the attached video of King's speech.

Related Reading:

Martin Luther King: An 'Authentic American Hero'—or Not?


Martin Luther King Jr. and the Fundamental Principle of America


On This Constitution Day, Remember the Declaration of Independence


The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty—Timothy Sandefur

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal—Ayn Rand

Martin Luther King: Right On Racial Justice, Wrong On ‘Economic Justice’


A New Textbook of Americanism: The Politics of Ayn Rand -- Jonathan Hoenig, Editor
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  • Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.—Francisco d'Anconia
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