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He has a dream

Mark Devenport | 16:27 UK time, Tuesday, 5 June 2007

You more often hear Ian Paisley quoting Martin Luther than Martin Luther King. After all, didn't People's Democracy model their 1968 civil rights march, attacked by unionists at Burntollet, on King's 1965 Selma to Montgomery march?

But yesterday the new look Dr Paisley quoted the great civil rights leader's famous Lincoln Memorial speech when he told MLAs "like another King, I have had a dream. I have had a dream in which children can play together, in which people can work together, and in which families can live happily side by side, regardless of their community or ethnic background or their religious beliefs."

Genuinely impressive, although I wondered about that phrase "like another King". Isn't the monarch a Queen? Or is Dr Paisley considering making the First Minister's position hereditary?

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  • At 12:14 PM on 06 Jun 2007,
  • John Cunningham wrote:

What if some of the children playing together were gay? Would he be happy then?

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  • At 12:08 PM on 07 Jun 2007,
  • Confused wrote:

I assume the other "King" reference is to distinguish MLK from Jesus Christ, i.e. THE King (unless you are an Elvis fan of course). Although it might be King Billy. Or is The Big Man falling into the Margaret Thatcher Royal "We" trap...

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