- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
In this passage, King reminds his audience that the hard work that must be done to secure equal rights for Black Americans can only be accomplished if they have faith in their mission.
The collective fight against racism won’t be easy—King knows that, and he wants his listeners to keep that fact in mind, too. But alongside the hard work and “struggle[s]” ahead—struggles that include tirelessly protesting and repeatedly “go[ing] to jail”—there will be prayer, hope, and solidarity. King believes that there can be no meaningful action without deep faith in the possibility of change. Here, he’s urging his listeners…