50 years on, who can match ‘I have a dream’?

Martin Luther King’s speech at the March on Washington in August 1963 helped change a country. Barack Obama has been voted the best modern speechmaker – and next week, on the anniversary of King’s speech, he’ll be speaking from the same steps. Could he, or any one else, have anything like the same effect?

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