From the Mountain of Despair to the Stone of Hope

Unique perspective of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial showing the Mountain of Despair split in two from which emerges the Stone of Hope with the leader statue. The design symbolizes words from the I Have a Dream speech: With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. Visitors walk through the opening in the rock to reach the statue, symbolically making the passage from despair to hope. Dramatic clouds in the sky add solemnity to this civil rights monument.

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