So if we look at the very first end of what is, at the very end of what is was the very first time that people actually clapped and roared really loud. So the end of what is, what he did is, he said, “America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked insufficient funds.” Well, everyone knows what is like to not have money in your account. So he used the metaphor people were very familiar with.
But when they really charged up, the very first time they really screamed was: “So we have come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.” That’s when they really clapped. It was when he compared what currently is to what could be.