Answer: I Have A Dream Speech by Martin Luther King Jr. Paraphrased
Five years ago, the good American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Declaration of Emancipation. This head of the judiciary came as a great ray of redemption to the millions of Black slaves who had been sealed in the fires of wiping oppression. It was a glorious daybreak to end the long night of their imprisonment.
But 100 yrs later, the Slave is still not free. One hundred years old, the existence of the Negro is still unfortunately segregation and the chains of seclusion and the chains of racism. One century later, the Black lives on a secluded island of hardship in the middle of a vast ocean of material prosperity. A hundred yrs later...
The Colored is now languishing in the shadows of Society today and finding himself in exile in his own country. And then we came here today to sensationalize a shameful state of affairs. In a way, we've traveled to the capital of our country to pay a check.
Because when founders of our country penned the glorious words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they signed a promise note upon whom all American was to become heir. This note was a pledge that all men-yes, men of color as well as white men-would be granted the inalienable rights to life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness.
It is now clear that United states has defaulted on this promising note as far as its people are concerned. Rather than upholding this sacred responsibility, America has given the Colored people a poor check, a check that has come back marked a lack of money.
