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Barack Obama, just elected on November 4, 2008 to be 44th President of the United States, the first African American President in history, starts his victory speech to over 250,000 supporters in Chicago's Grant Park by saying:

"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our Founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer...It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve, to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day. It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America."

http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/speeches/obama-victory-speech.html

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks on August 28, 1963 to over 250,000 people who had marched on Washington, DC with the cry, "Jobs and Freedom." As I listened to our newly elected President speak last night, these words of Dr. King came to mind:

"I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.'

"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

"I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

"I have a dream today."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk