From CBS News special coverage of 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" address on 28 August 2013:
SCOTT PELLEY: Doug Brinkley, noted American historian, professor of history at Rice University – as we embark on the next 50 years, what will this day mean to us?
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN: Well, I think it's one of the great speeches that Barack Obama's ever delivered. It had a theme of – the coalition of the conscience, he put it – about moral and economic justice. So, in President Obama's history, it's a seminal moment. But I think, most importantly, it's saying the struggle continues, and that we have to fight against, as the President said, the greed-mongers. There's a – it gets back to that 99-to-one notion that he ran on in his campaign – that we've got to pull together – and he started talking about everyday people that make a difference by lending a helping hand – very beautifully written.