In the famous I Had A Dream speech Martin Luther King Jr. stated many things. One of these things was that the African Americans had been freed from slavery, but they were still not free since they didn’t have all of their rights and were not treated as equals. He repeats the term “one hundred years later,” to dramatize the time in which they have been supposedly freed but still faced discrimination. He then tells people why they are gathered around listening to him, and tells them what America was doing wrong. He then tells the people that they need to stand for what was right, and that they needed to do it now and not later. He says that this movement would not die down that it will last until they get their rights. He then tells his supports