Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have Dream" speech highlighted the continued mistreatment of African Americans by the American society that existed in the 1950s and 1960s. He compares their struggle for equality to a fight that the nation as a whole was engaged in for freedom. In this way, the civil rights movement becomes a continuation of the American Revolution. According to King, the country will stand on its foundation of liberty and freternity only when all races are considered equal. He goes further, saying that the continued struggle for equality must be nonviolent. He urges African Americans to shed their own prejudices against white Americans and work with them to achieve their goal. King also said that the civil rights movement could not stop until absolute equality was reached. Throughout the speech, King appeared optimistic. In his eyes, racial equality was the tangible last step toward freedom in the United States.
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