"Enough already!" And they waved a large banner that proclaimed: "Dreams are for everyone.
At the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., proclaimed his dream of a future in which everyone, no matter who, would be able to cry: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!" Among King's followers, no one doubted what kind of freedom he had in mind.
Fairly typical was a classified ad in a Texas newspaper in 2000 that proclaimed: "American Dream Come True!! Land/Home Financing with Low Down Payment and Low Interest".
It's already a three-million-copy bestseller in its Mandarin edition and offers a remarkably digestible vision of what Xi's highly proclaimed "China Dream" will mean in the new Chinese century.
A. Philip Randolph, who organized the first predominantly African-American union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, was also a founder of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the prime mover behind the historic March on Washington in 1963 at which Dr. King proclaimed his dream.
In the Mad version, a woman proclaimed, "I dreamed I was arrested for indecent exposure in my Maidenform bra".
That day, before making his PGA Tour debut at the 2009 Northern Trust Open in Los Angeles, Ishikawa charmed the news media, proclaiming his dream to play on the PGA Tour and to win the Masters, and his fondness for hamburgers.
The wealth of the rich, including those who have profited from family connections with powerful officials, and the discontent it provokes stand in striking counterpoint to the pursuit of the "China Dream" proclaimed by the country's new leader, Xi Jinping.
This year's self-proclaimed "Dream Team," the Philadelphia Eagles, lost to the Giants yesterday; even Jets fans at the bar greeted the Eagles' second-straight loss with joyous applause.
He spoke of just trying to fit in, while starring in a sneaker commercial so contrite about his past behavior that he proclaimed himself "The American Dream".
We do not live in the world that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, envisioned when he proclaimed, "I have a dream that little black boys and little black girls will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character".
