Most MLK Jr's rhetoric was about equality, (<em>recognition and affirmation</em>), stating that every american must work for racial equality and claiming that African Americans should be granted equal rights, but acknowledging that civil rights alone would not solve the income inequality issue created by the prior oppression, implying that African Americans will be free when they could have economic equality and equality of opportunities. Thus King believes that African Americans will be content <em>when they are completely free</em>.
