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    In his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech, Martin Luther King Jr. outlines over a century of racial injustice and inequality in America despite the promises of freedom and equality. He calls on the country to make racial justice and equality a reality by ending discrimination and segregation. King urges the civil rights movement to remain nonviolent and bring people of all races together through solidarity and faith in meaningful change. He dreams that one day America will truly live up to its creed that all men are created equal and that people will be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

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    In his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech, Martin Luther King Jr. outlines over a century of racial injustice and inequality in America despite the promises of freedom and equality. He calls on the country to make racial justice and equality a reality by ending discrimination and segregation. King urges the civil rights movement to remain nonviolent and bring people of all races together through solidarity and faith in meaningful change. He dreams that one day America will truly live up to its creed that all men are created equal and that people will be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

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    In his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech, Martin Luther King Jr. outlines over a century of racial injustice and inequality in America despite the promises of freedom and equality. He calls on the country to make racial justice and equality a reality by ending discrimination and segregation. King urges the civil rights movement to remain nonviolent and bring people of all races together through solidarity and faith in meaningful change. He dreams that one day America will truly live up to its creed that all men are created equal and that people will be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

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    In his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech, Martin Luther King Jr. outlines over a century of racial injustice and inequality in America despite the promises of freedom and equality. He calls on the country to make racial justice and equality a reality by ending discrimination and segregation. King urges the civil rights movement to remain nonviolent and bring people of all races together through solidarity and faith in meaningful change. He dreams that one day America will truly live up to its creed that all men are created equal and that people will be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

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    I Have a Dream Speech Summary

    In his “I Have a Dream” speech, minister and civil rights activist Martin
    Luther King Jr. outlines the long history of racial injustice in America and
    encourages his audience to hold their country accountable to its own
    founding promises of freedom, justice, and equality.

    King begins his speech by reminding his audience—the 250,000+


    attendees at the March on Washington in August of 1963—that it has
    been over a century since the Emancipation Proclamation was signed into
    law, ending slavery in America. But even though Black Americans are
    technically free from slavery, they are not free in any larger sense—the
    “chains of discrimination” and the “manacles of segregation” continue to
    define the Black experience in America. It is time, King argues, for Black
    Americans to “cash [the] check” they were promised a century ago and
    demand “the riches of freedom and the security of justice.” There is no
    more time to waste in pursuit of a gradual solution to racism, King
    says—it is the “sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent,”
    and the country has reached its boiling point

    Even though King calls for the “whirlwinds of revolt” to spin into action, he
    urges those on the front lines of the civil rights movement not to let
    “bitterness and hatred” define their actions. They cannot to let their
    movement for justice “degenerate into physical violence.” King reminds
    his listeners to remain in the “majestic heights” of nonviolent resistance
    and also to not see their white allies as enemies. In order to bring true
    justice about, King says, Americans of all races will need to unite and
    remain true to the values of nonviolent solidarity.

    King acknowledges the long and difficult struggles that many of his
    listeners have already faced—he knows that those involved in the
    movement for civil rights have been beaten, insulted, and incarcerated.
    Still, he urges them to return home from the march to wherever they may
    live, be it in the sweltering South or in the “ghettos of the northern cities,”
    confident in the value and promise of their fight.

    Then King invokes the dream he has for America: a dream that one day
    the country will “live out the true meaning of its creed” and make it a
    reality that “all men are created equal.” He dreams that his children will
    one day live in a society where they will be judged not “by the color of their
    skin but by the content of their character” and that, in the future, Black
    children and white children will join hands as sisters and brothers.

    King urges his listeners to take their faith in meaningful change back to
    their hometowns—they must continue to struggle together, face
    incarceration together, and “stand up for freedom together” in order to
    truly make America a great nation. He calls for freedom to ring out across
    the country, from the highest mountains of Colorado, to Stone Mountain
    of Georgia, to “every hill and molehill of Mississippi.” When America
    collectively allows freedom to ring across its hills and valleys, he says,
    only then will “black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Catholics and
    Protestants” be able to sing truthfully and honestly the words of the old
    Negro spiritual: “Free at last, free at last; thank God Almighty, we are free
    at last.”

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