In the passage from "I Have a Dream" highlight the sections where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr references American history to build his credibility Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation This momentous decree
came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice It came as a joyous
daybreak to end the long night of their captivity
In a sense, we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Consitution and
the Declaration of Independence they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir