Or worse, they will be smirking at us from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
In 1922, the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington by Chief Justice William Howard Taft.
We stopped with the team at the Lincoln Memorial, and I know how much you admired Lincoln.
But he didn't compare to singer Beyonce, who closed Sunday's star-studded Lincoln Memorial concert and drew giggles and shouts.
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And then beyond the Reflecting Pool the dignified columns of the Lincoln Memorial.
The landscaped memorial would lie near the Lincoln Memorial, where King gave his "I have a dream" speech in 1963.
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The monument will stand on the National Mall, the strip of parkland between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
Some of you may have heard of French -- he's the one who carved the figure of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial.
Memorial Bridge, which connects the Virginia side of the Potomac to Washington near the Lincoln Memorial, will be open to foot traffic only.
And then we saw Saturday, the President reached out to America for about 10 minutes at the Lincoln Memorial, understanding there was a concern.
The spirit that guided him was clearly that of his Second Inaugural Address, now inscribed on one wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.
We're all very familiar, of course, with the speech Dr. King delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the late summer of 1963.
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Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, one of the most inspirational orations in history.
DePreist was the nephew of Marian Anderson, a celebrated contralto whose 1939 concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial was a landmark moment in civil-rights history.
That is why Dr. Martin Luther King could stand on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and ask that our nation live out the true meaning of its creed.
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They thronged along the sides of the Reflecting Pool leading up to the Lincoln Memorial, where, four decades ago, so many massed to hear the words of Martin Luther King.
On one side, it reads, "Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope, " from Dr. King's speech, "I Have a Dream, " presented at the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963.
That memorial almost never came to be, or at least not in its current location nestled between the edifices that epitomized the two previous centuries: the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
Now, some heirs of Charles H. and Lida Tompkins, the founders of the company that built the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial and other Washington landmarks, want to move their money again.
Alas, as Jeffrey Lacasse of Arizona State University and Jonathan Leo of Lincoln Memorial University pointed out in a letter published in JAMA last October, Dr Robinson failed to clarify that important point in his paper.
Also, on Jan. 19, American "thinkers" will lead a series of seminars with question and answer periods with American citizens in tents set up on the Mall, a park that stretches from the U.S. Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial.
Bruce was a great fan -- a great friend over the last year, and when I watched him on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial when he rocked the National Mall before my inauguration, I thought it captured as well as anything the spirit of what America should be about.
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Indeed, one suspects the National Urban League's recently released 2009 State of Black America report quantifying racial inequities in employment, housing, education, criminal justice, health and other arenas will be about as welcome as graffiti on the Lincoln Memorial among those Americans who convinced themselves in November the country had entered a "post-racial" era.
It was a dream deferred less than 50 years ago, when a preacher spoke of justice and brotherhood from Lincoln's memorial.
Like his reconciling hero, Abraham Lincoln whose memorial he visited on trips to Washington Mr Rawls appealed to our better natures.
Questions have also been raised over whether the memorial disturbs the "conversation" among Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson, a presidential trinity whose memorial triangle is now impinged upon by Roosevelt's spread.
Hillary's final glance back was of Memorial Bridge and Lincoln's marbled temple from the Arlington Heights, after which they drove through the Virginia countryside, past Middleburg, Warrenton, Culpeper, and into the Shenandoah Mountains, then down to Charlottesville.
As some of you know, earlier today, I was honored to join the Memorial Day ceremony at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Illinois.
Eleanor Roosevelt makes an appearance in the memorial, a distinction Martha Washington and Mary Todd Lincoln didn't get.
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