There are many speeches that discuss the topic of a just America. Two speeches that discuss this are Barack Obama's “The Audacity of Hope” and Martin Luther King Jr's “I Have a Dream” speech. Both of these speeches discuss allusions to the Declaration of Independence and the American Dream. Obama's speech was given on July 27, 2004 in Boston, Massachusetts at The Keynote Address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Whereas King delivered his speech on August 28, 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. Even though there is a 40 year difference, these speeches share many of the same topics. One of the topics that is shared is the allusions to the Declaration of Independence. In Obama’s speech, he states,”We hold