Roundup: "Dream legacy" continues as Martin Luther King's Day observed in U.S.

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Roundup: "Dream legacy" continues as Martin Luther King's Day observed in U.S.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- "I want to be a builder. I wantto build houses and buildings for the homeless," said Aman Efrem, a third-grade student from Hearst Elementary in Washington D.C.

For another student, Azalea Westray, the dream is "that all people stop the violence" and "all people love and respect one another."

The two were among various answers to the Washington Post's blank filling to "My dream is..." when Americans observed the Martin Luther King's Day Monday.

The black civil rights leader and Nobel ...

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