The "I Have a
Dream" speech, by Martin Luther King Jr, is one of the most famous orations of all time.
Its hopeful tone cries out to its audience to pursue King's "dream" of a racially just
America which is built on cooperation between all people. King uses figurative language to
describe the deplorable injustices suffered by African Americans and his dreams for a bright and
just future for all Americans.
In the opening paragraph of the speech,
Martin Luther King Jr lamented thethat in 1963, one hundred years after the signing of the
Emancipation Proclamation, which ended slavery in the United States,
... the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life
of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of
discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the
midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still
languished in the corners of American society...
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