Martin Luther King Jr. I Have A Dream

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of discrimination,"(King 1194). Despite the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans frequently came across signs stating "for whites only." If discrimination and segregation weren't harmful enough, African Americans suffered the horrors of police brutality.

Finally, the third and maybe most important theme is unity. Unity was a fundamental practice of Doctor King's doctrine. Unity is the basic principal for a fundamentally sound nation. For example, King states "The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges," implying that the United States cannot be united until "Justice" is granted for "God's children" (1194). In King's theory there is no judgment of "character." Unity is seen as the "bounty of our freedom." It was unity that King speaks about that forged the creation of the nation. Furthermore, unity will one day be not only a dream but a realization, a realization that together man can create great ...

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