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I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King Jr. (ANNOTATIONS (Five score years…

- - - - In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
        -- This refers that the money behind that check represents the rights that all Americans including African Americans were promised in those documents.
        
        This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
        -- King draws on the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence. The note promised all white and black men would be equal to pursuit happiness.
        
        This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
        -- King compares the legitimate anger of African-Americans to sweltering summer heat and freedom and equality to invigorating autumn as the season of peace and change.
        
        We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
        -- Amos 5:24: “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!”
        
        I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
        -- King referred to Mississippi, a state where some of the worst offenses against the blacks had been carried out.
        
        I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification;
        -- A reference to George Wallace, then governor of Alabama where terrorist violence has raged and reared it’s head again with the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, killing four black girls.
        
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- - - - What does “unalienable rights” mean? What are these unalienable rights?
        
        Why did King include/mention many different places, religions, types of people?
- - - - A. Deliver a speech for his people to gain freedom.
        
        After a hundred years, his people still aren't getting the fair treatment they deserve.
        
        His people feels as if they were an exile to their own land.
      - B. Martin Luther King's reason to fight for his people's rights.
        
        They were told that the government has 'insufficient funds' which they did not believe so. They too deserve to have financial support coming from the government.
        
        His people who lives in Mississippi were not given the rights to vote.
        
        C. The dreams of Martin Luther King.
        
        That the sons of slaves and former slave owners to one day be able to eat together in one table.
        
        That a state such as Mississippi which could be considered a very toxic place, would be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
        
        For his children to live in a world where skin color is not a reason to judge.