I have read Martin Luther King “ I have a dream”. While reading the speech, I felt his fury and his desperation for justice. He not only spoke with great power and in a poetic way but also connected with the audience. I felt that he was not only speaking to his people as black man to black man but also to all Americans. In his speech he gives examples of the continued racism that his people still face one hundred years later after the emancipation proclamation, which freed them from slavery, was signed. Martin Luther king new it was time to demand a change and although it was going to take a while he gave us the steps that needed to be taken to achieve equality.

I found it compelling when he referred to their situation as a bad check. He said, “America has giving the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “inefficient funds” and that they have come to cash that check. When the declaration of independence was signed, all Americans were promised liberty and a brighter future. Instead the African American was giving an insignificant amount of that heir. It was time for them to rise and fight for those rights.

I also found compelling when he said, “ Of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. He made it clear that there was no stepping back, that sooner or later all Americans had to walk together and unite as brothers to respect and form the real America.

I wonder what was going through Martin Luther King mind while giving the speech. Did he know that this speech was going to become a legend? And that it was actually going to make a significant change in the life’s of all African Americans.

I think that the purpose of this speech was to demand equality and end racism once and for all. He wanted to point out that their life’s would be so much better and peaceful if freedom were to be available to all. Although they might not live to see the complete change they holed the bright future in their hands, the future of their children and their children children’s.