Reading this during the current protests against police brutality has helped me reflect on how little has changed and what needs to for us to substantively move forward a nation, for example white moderates not just voicing support while preferring to give blacks rights on their terms. It was also interesting to juxtapose the civil rights movement with the wider historical context, such as King's references to the end of colonialism meaning Africans had greater freedoms than black Americans and note that white women were demanding entry into the workforce that black women had always had to participate in. Additionally, I'd not recalled King's background as a clergyman, so found the Biblical references and seeming anti-Muslim (thus anti-black nationalist) sentiment a bit jarring, though it clearly gives him with the moral high ground to attack the hypocrisy of white and black Christians that don't meaningfully support freedom and equality in their own language. Definitely worth the read for its eloquent ideological and historical lessons.