Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.
 It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.
Much of the greatness of this speech is tied to its historical context, a topic which goes beyond the scope of this article.
Instead, I’ll focus on five key lessons in speechwriting that we can extract from Martin Luther King’s most famous speech.
By order of introduction, here are the key phrases: ways to use repetition as well.
One way is to repeat key “theme” words throughout the body of your speech.
Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”  But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
This article is the latest in a series of video speech critiques which help you analyze and learn from excellent speeches.
It is worthy of lengthy study as we can all learn speechwriting skills from King’s historic masterpiece.