Why does Dr. King’s “Dream” speech exert such a potent hold on people around the world and across the generations?

Explanation:

The speech holds a potent hold because Dr. King could manipulate a word to make it sound better than it really was.  Dr. King would tell about something that people didn't want to listen to but they would hear him delivering his speech and they couldn't help but listen. Dr. King was a great person in our history. He was like (no offense to anyone) a Negro/American version of Ghandi.

no every country is held to the same degree as others just some member countries such as the usa and germany are more economically sound so the need to show there support to all others  

-he wants to reinforce that students and teachers still have their first amendment rights during the school day.