What advice did Martin Luther King, Jr. give to black people in his "I Have a Dream" speech?

Martin
Luther King Jr. gave three pieces of advice to black people in his speech "I Have A
Dream." He admonished them to never meet violence with violence, he encouraged them to
continue to hope, and to never be satisfied as long as the status quo remained.

King encourages black people to be guiltless and blameless, never returning violence.
He explained to them that undeserved suffering is redemptive, meaning that it ultimately saves
them from evil. He explained that they should never be filled with bitterness or hate in their
struggle to gain the freedoms guaranteed to all citizens in the Declaration of Independence.
King believed strongly in nonviolent protest for two reasons: his strong faith in Jesus Christ
and the example of Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent protest which brought about change in his
country.

And that is something that I must say to my
people who stand on the worn threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of
gaining our rightful place we must not he guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy
our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever
conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

Next, King encourages his people to continue to have hope that change will happen. He
paints an image of what life can be when they achieve the equal status they are seeking with the
section of the speech that repeats the phrase "I have a dream." King paints a picture
of hope that his children will grow up in a world without racism, violence, and fear.

When we allow freedom to ring-when we let it ring from every city
and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all
of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will
be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last, Free
at last, Great God a-mighty, we are free at last."

Finally, King encourages his followers to never be satisfied until the unjust laws were
eliminated. He was encouraging them to see the movement through to its natural conclusion, and
not to get satisfied with just a little progress.

We can
never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their adulthood and robbed of their
dignity by signs stating "whites only." We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro
in Mississippi cannot vote and the Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.
No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters
and righteousness like a mighty stream.