The memorial is where the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.

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Anyway, Mr Obama himself asserted in his speech at the memorial service that partisan rancour did not cause the killing.

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Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, one of the most inspirational orations in history.

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The landscaped memorial would lie near the Lincoln Memorial, where King gave his "I have a dream" speech in 1963.

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