Analysis Of Dr. Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream Speech

From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C, in 1963 the hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Dr. Martin Luther King gave one of the most famed and revered speeches of all time. The name for that amazing speech was “I have a dream”, and it was given in front of more than two hundred thousand people who had come to demonstrate for civil rights. At the time of this iconic speech, Dr.King had felt that even on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation the Negro still wasn’t free. He felt One hundred years later the life of the Negro was stilled crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. He also felt the Negro was still anguished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. That was the reason Dr.King assembled in Washington D.C that day, he was fed up with the inequality in America. Dr. King believed it’s time for the dreams of his ideal society to be realized. …show more content…
Dr.King sensed that he and the two hundred thousand that joined him at the nation’s capital were there to cash a check. A check that was promised to them in the Declaration of Independence; he said, “This note was promised to all men yes, black men as well as white men would be guaranteed the inalienable right of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness” (Barnet,Bedau 687). Dr.King wanted the promises of democracy to come to life he said, “Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sun lit paths of racial justice” (Barnet,Bedau 687). He felt strongly these were the steps need to help realize the dreams of his ideal