Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech

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* I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

Martin Luther King was a man who believes in equality between people. He mentions that equality and human rights are the only things that provide people to live freely and happy in a country. "All men are created equal" means nobody should be judged because of their color or their race. On this sentence he talks to all people in the world. He wants to mention the importance of the equality and justice. He also talks with a persuasive language with using "we hold these truths". He wants to be persuasive to accept his thoughts on people.

* The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

In those times the America has a civil war between Negros and whites. Martin luther king wants to say that there will not be peace and happy world until black and white will be equal and free. He doesn't threat anybody but