I’m not gonna name the speech in the thread title because of the bias it introduces (only people who know the speech would open the thread), but there’s a pretty good chance that a lot of you will guess what speech I’m going to name anyway.
It’s probably the most famous speech in American history. There’s only one other speech that I’d consider in the running.
The speech I’m talking about, of course, is Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Every schoolchild learns about the speech in their primary years, and it gets quoted all the time here. But it occurred to me recently that maybe it’s famous here the way Admiral Nelson is famous in the UK–that is, everyone in the country knows of it, but outside of the country, knowledge of it is more limited to history nerds.
So what about it, folks? Are you familiar with the speech, and if so, how familiar, and when did you learn about it?