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Martin Luther King went off script with an idea he had used before

At the 1963 March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., a leader campaigning for equal rights, began with a prepared speech. Then he left the written text to speak about his dream of racial equality.

He later recalled that change. But the dream was not a brand-new idea: he had spoken about it in Detroit and earlier speeches.

He brought familiar material into a speech he had begun another way.

Source: kinginstitute.stanford.edu

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