precipitated by the -- you know, the demonstrations in birmingham, or by the brutal reaction, the conscience of america was shocked and that dr. king knew this, so when he was speaking about the dream, he was calling attention to america to see the moral, the immorality of the contradiction between the way in which 12% of the population is treated, people of color, and the precepts and principals of those who shined in our declaration of independence. that's what the speech was. when he said the dream, of course, if you look at it from a syntax standpoint, he wasn't talking about then august 28th, he said i dream. he's using the future tense. i dream that one day my four children will -- that reflected his profound prophetic confidence in the american people, recognizing that the goodness in the american people