LAD #26 MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech

During the March on Washington Matin Luther King Jr delivers his most powerful speech, "I have a Dream". dr. King beings his speech by talking about the accomplishments of Lincoln. "Four score d 5 years ago" President Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation and yet African American are still not free, "languished in the corner of society" as they live in poverty and segregation. He goes back to the Founding Fathers has they have not delivered on the promised made in theDeclaration of Independence and the Constitution for African Americans are denied their rights. Now is the time to stop taking "tranquilizing drug of gradualism" but the time to "make real promises of Democracy". Dr. King states that its time African Americans become equal. He them emphasizes that their protest will not "degenerate into physical violence". Now is the time they will not look back,  they will not stop until they are equal. He then acknowledged the people before him and all they have done. Its after this that he declares his famous dream, that one day the Unites states will uphold the ideas written in the constitution, a dream where men come together, where children "will not be judged by the color of their skins but the content of their character". With this dream as their faith they can soon stand together with white by their sides. When this happens, when freedom rings, all people Black, White, Jewish, Catholic or Protestant will be able to say "Free at last".