In 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington D.C., Martin Luther King Jr. gave his 'I Have a Dream Speech'. In it he remembers how the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Lincoln one hundred years earlier and how it became a symbol of hope for all enslaved men at the time. But now, the equality that all freedmen have hoped for, still hasn't come. MLK expresses his hope that one day everyone will be equal, and segregation will not be the law of the land. MLK uses allusions to biblical references in his speech as well as parallelism by saying 'I have a dream...' to emphasize his points for equality.
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