On August 28th 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King delivered one of the most powerful speeches in the history of mankind. Dr. King spoke about racial equality and the end of discrimination. Dr. King possessed the power to capture, educate and inspire every person who had been standing on those steps listening to the speech on the Lincoln Memorial. Even through such a controversial time, he informed everyone on the problems going on no matter what side of the fence they were standing on, everybody stopped to listen.
"Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream
King uses a metaphor in his speech by comparing the way America needs
to get rid of racial injustice to raising a stone from quicksand to solid rock.
Racial injustice is the quicksand that will bury the stone that represents our
nation. By bringing the stone onto the solid rock representing brotherhood, it
no longer is in danger of sinking in the quicksand.
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