Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream Speech

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The “I Have a Dream Speech” by Martin Luther King is one of the most famous and one of the best speeches ever given. The overall message in the speech is that all men and women are created equal although not thought like that at the time in America,Martin Luther King thought it should be like this in the future and throughout America. The speech was important in several ways.Such as where the speech was given at the “shadow we stand today” which is where the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.Third, the speech brought Martin Luther King’s speech to become famous nationwide (and worldwide) on radios, newspapers etc. And lastly, the speech helped Congress move quickly in passing the Civil Rights Act. We constantly see the phrase “I have a dream”