In a speech at the Martin Luther King Jr. Church on Sunday, Joe Biden said that his famous dream of equality and justice has not become a reality “yet” and called again for the fight for the “soul” of America, according to AFP.

“I’ve spoken in front of parliaments, kings, queens and leaders around the world, but I’m scared here,” said the US president, the first sitting president to speak during a Sunday service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, in the South). .

The church was home to Martin Luther King Jr., who would have turned 94 on Sunday.

Biden recalled the most famous speech of the symbol of the struggle for civil rights and against racial discrimination, who was killed in Memphis in 1968, in which he chanted “I have a dream.”

“The mission of our time remains the realization of this dream, because it is not yet true,” the president said.

Recalling that he installed a bust of the pastor in the Oval Office, Joe Biden said, using one of his favorite phrases: “The battle for the soul of America is eternal,” it is a “constant struggle” to protect “this sacred faith.” that we are created equal and in the image of God.”

“There’s still a lot of work to be done on economic justice, civil rights, voting rights,” admitted Joe Biden, whose political career before winning the White House was largely based on African-American support. electorate.

Joe Biden was invited to Atlanta by Raphael Warnock, today the main pastor of the church, as well as a Democratic senator who won a controversial election last November against a candidate supported by former President Donald Trump.

Greeting his host with a gospel song, Raphael Warnock joked that for a devout Catholic like the president, a Baptist service would probably seem “a bit over the top”.

The ceremony ended with a chorus of “We Shall Overcome,” the iconic anthem of the civil rights movement.