Did Martin Luther King say “I have a dream”?

Did Martin Luther King say “I have a dream”?

Found word for word. The words exist, but not where people usually place them. The earliest match in our corpus comes from another source, listed below.

Leadership and Language Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. Oliver Wendell Holmes In George Washington’s Rules of Civility , a good number of his recommendations for leaders involve speech and its perils: 72d Speak not in an unknown Tongue in Company but in your own Language and that as those of Quality do and not as the Vulgar; Sublime matters tre
Leadership in the Wilderness; Authority and Anarchy in the Book of Numbers — Jewish Thought · Modern · Per Sefaria text version: Jerusalem. Maggid Books, 2013 / https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH003673579/NLI (licences vary: public domain, CC0, CC BY, some CC BY-NC) · source

JULIA. Perhaps. But so are you. And for that matter, everything is queer. Life, men, everything--just a mush that floats on top of the water until it sinks, sinks down! I have a dream that comes back to me ever so often. And just now I am reminded of it. I have climbed to the top of a column and sit there without being able to tell how to get down again. I get dizzy when I look down, and I must ge
Plays by August Strindberg, Second series — August Strindberg, SCENE · ¶1262 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #14347 · source

"I have a dream," he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends--and YOU!"
Anne of the Island — Lucy Maud Montgomery, Chapter XL · ¶1798 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #51 · source

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