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| Martin Luther King Jr. delivering a speech. |
The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation gave hope to millions of African-American slaves in America, but even 100 years later, they aren't truly free; they still face discrimination and crippling poverty. And although they haven't seen the promise given in the Declaration of Independence in effect yet, they are determined to do so, and it needs to happen soon. And people who think the revolts will calm before African-Americans gain their rights are dead wrong. Black people must not stoop as low as to degenerate into physical violence, however, and must remember their white brothers, some of which support them. They can't do it alone and they can't turn back and they won't be satisfied if they must keep living the way they're living.
Even though they have many difficulties to overcome, King dreams that one day America would fully live up to the preamble of its Declaration of Independence, that black and white people would be able to join together in real brotherhood and African-Americans would be really free. And when they are free, all of God's children, no matter their religion, skin color, or any other thing, could be really free.
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