Dr. Martin Luther King speech, “I Have a Dream”, addresses many problems such as racism, injustice, inequality, and systemic oppression. In beginning of the speech he starts off by talking about slavery and how everything started. One hundred years later people of color are still being degraded and not being seen as equals but as inferiors. He made that connection because that is where racism stems from. “But 100 years later the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later the life of the Negro is still badly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination”. After speaking about how African Americans have been seen as “nobody”. Dr Martin Luther King continues talk but, he brings up the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. He states that every men, black as well as whites “would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”.


Civil rights is human rights, everybody is should be treated with respect and dignity, no matter how someone looks.” When we allow freedom to ring—when we let it ring from every city and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last, Free at last, Great God a-mighty, We are free at last.” He had dreamed that people would not be judged by the color of their skin but the content of their character.