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Pull out from US President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha, along with members of Dr Martin Luther King Junior's family, standing in front of monument  2. Obama family putting inaugural speech in...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Pull out from US President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha, along with members of Dr Martin Luther King Junior's family, standing in front of monument  \u003cbr/\u003e2. Obama family putting inaugural speech in time capsule\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of Obama family walking past monument\u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid of Aretha Franklin singing on stage\u003cbr/\u003e5. Cutaway of Obama listening to Franklin\u003cbr/\u003e6. Audience listening\u003cbr/\u003e7. Pull out as Franklin finishes song\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close-up of members of King family listening\u003cbr/\u003e9. Low angle shot of Obama speaking at podium\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Because he had faith in us and that is why he belongs on this Mall, because he saw what we might become.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Cutaway of Obama's daughters Malia and Sasha listening\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"As tough as times maybe, I know we will overcome. I know there are better days ahead. I know this because of the man towering over us. I know this because all he and his generation endured, we are here today in a country that dedicated a monument to that legacy.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Pan to audience as Obama finishes address\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of President and First Lady, with Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill, and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar (in hat) singing civil rights song \"We Shall Overcome\" \u003cbr/\u003e15. People singing, including Representative John Lewis and Colin Powell\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close-up of people holding hands\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of singers on stage\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Reverend Keith Hunter, from Charleston, South Carolina:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I'm just excited, overwhelmed, humbled at this experience ... and grateful.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Carlene Gales, from Durham, North Carolina:\u003cbr/\u003e\"This means a lot to me today, just to be here to celebrate this occasion and I thank God that we have come this far in this world for peace and justice for all.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Close-up of Martina Leinz and daughter listening to speeches\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Martina Leinz, from Burke, Virginia:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I feel so fortunate that I was able to bring my daughter. I wanted her to experience this, to fully understand how this man who fought for social and economic justice for all is so important to this country.\"\u003cbr/\u003e22. Pull out shot of monument\u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE (English) Stevie Wonder, Singer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"A goal set, a goal met. I knew in 1980 when I was in Atlanta, Georgia, and the night before I wrote this song, I imagined us being on a march, we were marching, to make Dr King's birthday a national holiday, I knew then. I touched the dream, I saw it, as I did with, here today, the monument. So congratulations America, congratulations the world.\"\u003cbr/\u003e24. Cutaway of monument\u003cbr/\u003e25. Stevie Wonder singing end of verse and chorus of \"Happy Birthday\"\u003cbr/\u003eUS President Barack Obama saluted Dr Martin Luther King Junior on Sunday as a man who \"stirred our conscience\" and made the Union \"more perfect,\" rejoicing in the dedication of a monument memorialising the slain civil rights leader's life and work.\u003cbr/\u003eObama credits Martin Luther King with paving his way to the White House.\u003cbr/\u003eThe dedication is special meaning for the Obamas, and the first couple and daughters Malia and Sasha made a more private visit to the site on Friday night, before the crowds and the cameras arrived. \u003cbr/\u003eThe family made a return visit on Sunday morning and before giving remarks, the president left a copy of an inaugural speech in a time capsule at the monument site.\u003cbr/\u003eObama and his wife, Michelle, as well as the Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, joined a host of civil rights figures for the dedication on the sun-splashed Mall.\u003cbr/\u003eIn his talk, Obama touched on broad themes, equality, justice and peaceful resistance, as the nation confronts, 43 years later, some of the same issues of war, an economic crisis and a lingering distrust of government in some quarters. \u003cbr/\u003eMany speakers noted that its designers could not have predicted then that the monument would be dedicated by the nation's first black president. \u003cbr/\u003eIt's a vision that King likely couldn't have imagined, notwithstanding his larger-than-life dream.\u003cbr/\u003eObama told the crowd: \"And that is why he belongs on this Mall: Because he saw what we might become.\" \u003cbr/\u003eDesigned as what King described as a stone of hope hewn from a mountain of despair, the memorial is the first to a black man on the National Mall and its parks.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I know we will overcome,\" Obama proclaimed, standing by an imposing granite monument. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I know this,\" the President said, \"because of the man towering over us.\"\u003cbr/\u003eCrowds began to gather at dawn at the memorial site, just to the southeast of the steps where King delivered his historic \"I Have a Dream\" speech. \u003cbr/\u003eVisitors from around the United States attended Sunday's dedication, which was postponed due to Hurricane Irene in August.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Reverend Keith Hunter, from Charleston, South Carolina voiced what many in the audience told Associated Press.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I'm just excited, overwhelmed, humbled at this experience ... and grateful.\"\u003cbr/\u003eCarlene Gales, travelled from Durham, North Carolina to attend the event.\u003cbr/\u003e\"This means a lot to me today, just to be here to celebrate this occasion and I thank God that we have come this far in this world for peace and justice for all.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAnd closer to home, Martina Leinz took the opportunity to show her daughter the importance of Dr King's work.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I wanted her to experience this, to fully 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