I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
ANALIZATION: Martin Luther Jr. made a heart throbbing and touching speech addressing generally his co-negroes.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
ANALIZATION: He reminded his fellow negroes of that occasion when they were proclaimed free. And that was years ago. This gave light of chances to then negro slaves to live a life in USA free and equal with any American race.
But one hundred years later, 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 mater ial prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
ANALIZATION: Martin Luther Jr. in his dismay during his speech openly divulged that his fellow negroes are not yet free. Instead, are forcedly segregated from other American races particularly from the whites who by then were still treating them like slaves, refuted and discriminated. They are still treated like prisoners in their own land.
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes,