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On August the 28th, 1963, the Reverend Martin Luther King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. He was greeted with rapturous applause from a 250,000-strong crowd of civil rights protesters. He spoke of the need "to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice". In this extract hear highlights from a debate, chaired by Â鶹Éç Derby's Devon Daley, on Martin Luther King's vision of racial harmony and equality of opportunity.