At the beginning of his speech Martin Luther goes back almost one hundred years by connecting the importance of the March to the Emancipation Proclamation (Kings 3). In this way, King puts the issue of equality into a timeline by showing that, although it has been one hundred years since African Americans were given freedom, he also shows that, although freedom has been granted to them, very little has still happened to They. give the African race a better life. Not much later in his speech King says, “This note was a promise that all men – yea, black men as well as white men – would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” (King 3) Once again, taking an important article from America's past, King states that when the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution they intended all Americans to be equal. Midway through the speech King implores his people to never resort to violence in the face of adversity presented to them by their oppressors, because King has come to realize through his own trials that “their (referring to the white man) destiny it is tied to our destiny.”(King 3) As the speech continues, King tells the masses that until they have their rights they will be equal to those whose rights have no limits, that they must not stop until they have achieved their objective. Being able to use