I Have a Dream Themes

Obviously race is the name of the game here. If white leaders had given due rights to African Americans from the start, there might have been no need for a March on Washington, a Civil Rights Movem...

You may have seen this one coming, but…"I Have a Dream" is about dreams. (Also, just to be clear, MLK is not talking about the type of dreams that you have when you're asleep. If he were, he'd pr...

The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence promised equality. Equality is supposed to be synonymous with America. In reality, however, the drive toward equality has been a continuing effo...

To make a compelling argument for change, you have to first make the case for why change is necessary. In 1963, many whites were asking what exactly African Americans wanted. America had already go...

MLK offers encouragement to people who have been harassed by police, arrested, mugged…sadly, the list goes on. The resistors of the Civil Rights Movement were not going to budge easily. Some of t...

The vision of "I Have a Dream" goes beyond the scope of the Civil Rights Movement—this speech can be applied toward many fights to end racism and inequality. That's probably why the speech has st...