Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by content of their character.” In the racially disparaging era of the 1960s, King merely had a vision of black children and white children enjoying their daily lives side by side with equality and justice for all. In his famous “I Have Dream” speech, King targeted the emotions and humanism of the crowd by drawing comparisons and brotherly love from the audience. He uses alliteration to aggrandize the meaning of the word “color” in this context. Most of all, he yearns for a time when his children will no longer need to be ashamed of their skin tone and will be judged solely on who
