On August 28, 1963, the day he made the speech, more than 250,000 people

gathered at the “March on Washington”.

Martin Luther King begins directly by exposing the facts of the reality of the
black community that seemed to have been resolved 100 years earlier after the
abolition of slavery by President Abraham Lincoln, who appears seated behind
him as a monument, but not yet they had resolved liberty and justice. His first
words "Five score years" is a reference to Lincoln that he also uses in the
Gettysburg discourse to begin and end that sentence with "that all men are
created equal", a phrase also mentioned by Martin in this speech. Martin,
continues to compare the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,
with a check that doesn't allow them to collect from the black community.
He forcefully calls on the nation to urgently solve the problem, but never in a
violent or hateful way, inasmuch as he was religious and supported peaceful
revolutions influenced by Mahatma Gandhi. He believed in the union of the
races.
He continues repeating that "they will never be satisfied" if injustices such as
police abuse and exclusion with signs that said "Only whites" in stores, hotels,
cemeteries continue to occur ... Martin wanted the black citizen to return to the
southern United States, where it existed extreme racism (Louisiana,
Mississippi...). In those states they were hated and even killed, this is where the
Ku Kux Klan emerged and continued, with strongly ingrained ideas of white
supremacy.
He quoted verbatim the phrase from the Declaration of Independence: "We hold
this truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" which wasn 't
respected. Start talking about his dreams. It will be the most epic part of his
entire speech for the way he expresses himself, for the truths he points out and
speaking in a personal way, connecting with the audience in perfect oratory. He
does so in an almost prophetic and spiritual way, highlighting his facet as an
evangelical pastor, wishing equality for "The children of God." He also makes
references to nature such as mountains of racist cities and elements such as
storms, rains, and rivers. For me, it symbolizes the force of nature, against
which you cannot fight, and in this case, a united people falling hard like a
storm on hills that will follow its natural course. I think it encourages all people
to spread that spirit to create a river of freedom, justice and social awareness,
and thus flow over the country without racism being able to stop that river.
Conclude this part by quoting a popular song known to both racists and blacks,
which speaks of freedom and pride of the American lands, which will impact
everyone.
A year later, as a result of the Civil Rights Movement led and supported by
President John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, the Civil Rights Act was
signed, prohibiting racial segregation in the workplace, schools and public. In
addition, that same year he became the youngest person at that time to win a
Nobel Prize, that of peace.
Although racism and inequality are not over in the country nowadays, Matin
made a big step into something that nature will one day balance out. Doing so is
the responsibility of previous generations, since making an adult atheist become
a believer is practically impossible. After slavery, children and grandchildren
were educated without believing in equality, only by adding positive experiences
these people and generations will reach balance.
King's widow attended Mandela's inauguration in 1994 as South Africa's first
black president. There Mandela delivered his speech. “I looked at her as she
referenced her husband's immortal words ... 'Free at last! Free at last! '”
Mandela wrote in his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom. Phrase with which
Martin Luther King closed his speech 31 years earlier.