Martin Luther King starts off his speech speaking of the Emancipation Proclamation. However he is very upset about the conditions in which the African Americans are faced with. King in Washington says that today they are ready to cash in their check, which was promised to every american citizen in 1776. King continues to use the phrase "I have a Dream" to make this powerfull statement fill the hearts of each and every citizen that is there. King also "reminds America of the fierce urgency of Now", and that there is "no
time to...take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism". However he does not want the African Americans to use non-violence. He pushes them to continue fighting untill they have the same rights as every other american. He dreams of a time when former slaves and slave owners can be friends, and black children and white children can sit together and play. This speech was a influential speech that goes down in history and has been heard by millions.
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