I feel that my classmates have summed up the idea of this speech (MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church) very well, in that the whole idea of this time was earning the right to be treated equally, which was supposed to be granted to them a century before. MLK made a point to emphasize to his followers that they were not to use violence. I liked when he said "There will be no crosses burned at any bus stops in Montgomery. (Well. That’s right) There will be no white persons pulled out of their homes and taken out on some distant road and lynched for not cooperating" (paragraph 8). He was basically saying that they should not use the same sort of scare tactics that were being used against them, and that if they persisted, then someday they would earn equality. He wanted to be sure that they understood that just because they were tired of being oppressed, that did not give them the right to try and become the oppressors. That is not equality. True equality means that it does not matter the color of your skin, your gender, your age, or anything else about you. You get the same treatment as everybody else. We have made great strides in that direction, but I'm still not entirely convinced that we're there yet.