LAD #26: Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech"

Dr. King leads off by immediately bringing up the Emancipation Proclamation and how it supposedly "freed" the slaves, while to this day the "Negro" is not free. He uses an analogy that the black population has come to Washington to "cash a check" written by the founding fathers and outlined in the unalienable rights guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence. But in essence this check has bounced as America has failed to give up these rights to the population. Continuing on he believes that the bank is not bankrupt, that justice can be lent out and that is why they were marching on Washington that day. His eloquence flows on by stating that it is time to deter gradualism and bring about the rapid change that democracy was founded on, to provide the security of justice to the undermined population. He states somewhat  out of person that this is the beginning and that the Negro's rights will be pursued vigorously until they are fulfilled as the molders of our nation had ensured. Still though, he advocates his policy of civil disobedience so that they may not drink "from the cup of bitterness and hatred". He states that no black man must be satisfied until his rights are guaranteed and protected. He says those who were victimized and are left slumming in the ghettos, remain and protest, as how is the protest to take place from the heart of the injustices? Then he states his dream of the American dream. His dream that someday the Declaration will be verified, and that men of color and white men may share a table, that Mississippi might be an "oasis of freedom", that he children might not be judged by their skin, that racist Alabama might allow kids of white and black to walk hand in hand down the street, and that the Lord might take pride in every valley and hill of this free land. He says yes this is my dream! This is the dream that shall bind the brotherhoods together so that the America may join together and sing the true meaning of "My Country Tis of Thee", which he proceeds to end his speech with in song.