On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood before thousands of Americans who had gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in the name of civil rights. Drawing upon the Gettysburg Address, Shakespeare, and the Bible, King's keynote speech would energize a movement and change the course of history. Profound and deeply moving, the text of the speech is included here in its entirety, as relevant today as it was 60 years ago.