"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was held by Martin Luther King Jr. (Also known as MLK) during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. The speech was delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a very important moment for the civil rights movement.
MLK was a priest and father who fought for equal rights in American society. Martin Luther king jr. sought equality and human rights for African Americans, the economically disadvantaged and all victims of injustice through peaceful protest. He wanted to spread a message to white people and black people.
“In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
(p. 1, II. 12-15).
Martin Luther king jr. uses metaphors to show the ideal world of racial equality. This is seen in: “the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land (p. 1, II. 8-11). I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood” (p. 3, II. 11-12).
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