Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech included the line "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.'" This is an example of highlighting a gap between reality and our ______.

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This line from Dr. King's speech emphasizes the discrepancy between the moral principles the United States professes, particularly in its founding documents like the Declaration of Independence ("all men are created equal"), and the reality of racial inequality and injustice in the country at the time.

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