edit my essay - I have a dream

In “I have a dream”, Martin Luther King addresses some social injustice problems in the past, including human equality, racism, freedom, and nation division. King gathers everyone together and believes that all of us can walk though these kinds of problems with his faith of chasing equality and fighting against injustice. Firstly, King focuses on the situation about Emancipation Proclamation, which issued by President Abraham Lincoln for leading the way to abolition of slavery in the United States. “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.” By drawing attention to the overall problem of racial segregation and discrimination of slavery, he speaks frustrated that, “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.” King believes that all men should treat each other fairly and equally, without considering the color on our skin. By repeating the phrase “One hundred years later”, King strongly points out that we still haven’t comply the proclamation that many of us want to achieve. He uses a couple metaphors to explain how Negro was treated by the others such as “One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.” By stating more phases as metaphors about equality of Negro, we understand that King seems to have a quite strong disappointment of what we have done in the last hundred years.

King continually extends his idea on the Negro people by using an example of cashing a check as a metaphor. “In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check.” He assumes that the proclamation we signed is exactly the same as a cashier check that offered by a bank. However, his descriptions on Negro above are contradicted to the proclamation we signed. “It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned". At this point, he is frustrated to let us know that “the bank of justice” is almost towering to a bankrupt situation. But he refuses to admit that, and believes our nation can definitely “fund the check” for the Negro people by speaking with a strong persuasive tone, “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy”. King shows that the Negros were being discriminated, and because of inequality, they are still poor.

Another main idea in the speech is freedom. Martin Luther King is fighting that for the Negros. He is not satisfied with the Negros’ right and says, “We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote.” The black Americans are not allowed to vote and this is the freedom they crave for. He states that the Negros should fight until they achieve freedom. He said, ‘No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream’. It’s clear that he is encouraging people to fight for their rights until there is justice. This shows his courage and selflessness in fighting for the freedom rights of the Negros.

Martin Luther King also outlines his dream clearly on the speech. He has a dream of brotherhood, freedom and justice. He has a dream of unity among the whites and blacks. For example, “I have a dream that my four little children will not be judged by color of their skin but the content of their character.” He hopes there is a day, whether black and white, will have unity and work as one for their success.

In conclusion, I have a dream by Martin Luther king is great motivational speech and very emotional. It states what the Negros were suffering, from oppression and inequality to discrimination and political freedom. To fight them he asks the people avoid hatred, bitterness, physical violence and disunity.

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