Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech.I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

King compares Mississippi to a place sweltering with heat, but the “heat” is figurative: it represents the injustice and oppression people experience there. He hopes the state will become an “oasis of freedom and justice,” so he is describing the painful effects of racism, not just warm weather or a reason to move away.

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