In spite, of the difficulties and frustration of the movement, he has a dream that is deeply rooted in the American dream. With the hope that their situation will be changed one day, he asks his people to go back to their respective places and work for the change. They cannot move alone as their destiny has been tied with that of the whites.Īnswering a question, “When the negros will be satisfied, he says that they will not be satisfied?” He says that they will not be satisfied as long as the police continue brutality against them, they are deprived of getting rest at the hotels of the cities and motels of the highways, are deprived of their voting rights, equality, justice, and freedom. He also, asks his people not to distrust all the white people because some of the whites have been helping the negros to get equal rights. Martin wants to conduct the struggle in discipline and dignified way combining their physical force with the spiritual one. Martin Luther King reminds his people that they should not carry out any violent activities in the course of the protest. There will be neither peace nor rest in the nation until their rights are granted. Failing to meet their requirements would be fatal for the nation.
Martin Luther King is not ready to believe that the bank of the USA is bankrupt, so he urges the government to fulfill the demands of all the negros without any delay. When the leaders of the USA wrote the words of the constitution, they were signing a promissory note, but instead of granting the Negros the right promised by the constitution, the government of the USA has given a bad check. So Martin Luther King says that they have gathered at the capital of the nation to cash check. They were still compelled to live as an outsider in their own country. They were still crippled by the chains of discrimination and manacles of segregation and still compelled to live a miserable life among wealthy white Americans. But a hundred years after the document has been signed the Negros were still not free. They had hoped that they would be free and that they would not be discriminated anymore. This historical document has brought a light of hope among the negro slaves ending a long night of captivity. Martin Luther King begins his speech paying tribute to Abraham Lincoln, who signed the emancipation proclamation 100 years ago. He delivered this memorable speech on 28 August 1963.
It reached its historic climax in 1963, leading a mass of two hundred thousand people both blacks and whites from Washington Monument to Lincoln’s memorial. The campaign of Martin Luther King against color and racial discrimination began in 1950. “I have a dream” is a historical speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr., who is renowned all over the world for his policy of passive resistance and oratorical skills.
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