Martin Luther King

M.L. KINGS I HAVE A DREAM lecturing - AUG. 28, 1963 I am happy to join with you today in what will go d testify in history as the superlative demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score long time ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, sign-language(a) the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon fire of hope to millions of slaves, who had been seared in the flames of whithering injustice. It came as a rapturous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. notwithstanding one and only(a) hundered years later, the colored America is still not free. champion snow years later, the life of the colored American is still woefully crippled by the manacle of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the colored American lives on a lone(a) island of poverty in the midst of a vast marine of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the colored American is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land So we redeem come here today to take a shameful condition. In a sense we have come to our Nations Capital to cash a check.

When the architects of our great state wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory circular to which every Anerican was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed to the inalienable rights of life liberty and the following of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this tabu obligation, America has given its colored people a frightful check, a check that has come back marked insufficient funds. But we refuse to bank that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of fortune of this nation. So we have come to... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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