American Dream The Real Dream
... The American Dream, still a work in progress, consists of many aspects of equality, tolerance, and upward mobility for all that aspire to the dream of the land. The “American Dream” is open to many interpretations. ... The irony of the American dream lies in the practice of the early Americans. ... In one of the most famous speeches during the civil rights movement and American history, Martin Luther King, Jr. ... King stated in 1963, during his famous “I Have A Dream” speech: Fivescore years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. […] But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free; one hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination; one hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity; one hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. ... moved people into action in pursuit of the dream he spoke of. The dream of equality embedded in the foundation of this nation.