On August 28th 1963, on the occasion of the Civil Rights March on Washington, Martin Luther King declared:

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

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.

Quotes taken from:

America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations by William J. Federer