Justice In Martin Luther King's Speech

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In his speech Martin Luther King used the semantic area of economy because he referred to a check that negro hadn't receive. He referred to the check of liberty and justice. Through his speech he want to ask freedom and justice for negro people. He refuses a violent protest, he wants to conduct his struggle in the name of dignity and discipline.
He thoughts that some white people had understood that their destiny is tied up with the destiny and freedom of black people, so they are their friends.
He concludes speech with his dream: he wants that governments respect the principle that all people are egual, he wants freedom , justice for his people, he wants that balck people can live in brotherood with white people. At the end he says that he

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