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 'Let Freedom Ring':  "It is along this second dimension — economic opportunity — that the dream has most fallen short," Obama said.

 

President Carter said.

He said that King's dream is still not complete. He said "we all know" how Dr. King would feel at some voter ID laws, and at the Supreme Court ruling striking a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. "We all know" what Dr. King would think about the incredible unemployment rate, and incarceration rate of blacks.

The pursuit of happiness, said Obama, "requires the dignity of work."

"We now have a choice. We can continue down our current path" of growing income inequality or "we can have the courage to change."

Rep. John Lewis, the Democratic congressman from Georgia"We have come a long way in 50 years, but we have a long way to go before we can fulfill King's dream," Lewis said.

He said we've made progress: "The signs that said white and black are gone... but there are still invisible signs," Lewis said. "The scars and stains of racism remain."

NYPD's Stop and Frisk program and the injustice in the case of Trayvon Martin are some examples.

"We must never, ever give up," Lewis said.

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