What is the central analogy in this section of the speech?
A) It compares the goals of America’s founding fathers to the goals of the Civil Rights movement.
B) It compares the concerns of African Americans to the concerns of the rest of the nation.
C) It compares a promise to God and the Declaration of Independence.
D) It compares the denial of civil rights to writing a check that can’t be cashed.
I Have a Dream
by Martin Luther King Jr. (excerpt)
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 Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, in so far as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."