On August 28th, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech in Washington D.C. that would go down in history as one of the most famous speeches of all time. He began by saying that, although the Emancipation Proclamation was signed 100 years ago, the African American was still not free in America. Then he went to a different piece of American rhetoric: the Declaration of Independence. He stated that it said that all men are guaranteed with certain unalienable rights and that included blacks as well as whites, but they were being denied them. This problem was urgent to the citizens of the United States. He said that then was the time for not gradual, but speedy change. However, this equality should not have been done by "wrongful deeds" like violence. Then began the most famous part of this speech. King said "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'" He goes on to say that he has a dream that someday the country will be truly equal. Only then will everyone truly be able to hear "freedom ring."
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