On August 28th 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King delivered one of the most powerful speeches in the history of mankind. Dr. King spoke about racial equality and the end of discrimination. Dr. King possessed the power to capture, educate and inspire every person who had been standing on those steps listening to the speech on the Lincoln Memorial. Even through such a controversial time, he informed everyone on the problems going on no matter what side of the fence they were standing on, everybody stopped to listen.
“No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream
King uses a simile here when he describes his desire for justice and righteousness. He says he and the American people will not be satisfied until justice and righteousness flow through the nation like water would flow through a mighty stream. He compares justice to water, which I think he means just as water flows from a stream it shows something pure and clean and that would be the same reaction if there was justice a feeling of purity and cleanness since that's what African-Americans deserved.
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