I HAVE A DREAM
Annotations
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.
The proclamation was still disregarded 5 years after it was signed due to old tradition.
Negros were supposed to be treated as equals but they were neglected.
The Declaration of Independence: "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.
Despite being stated there was so much misery among people of color
They should have started treating Negros as equals.
1963 is not an end, but a beginning.
It's a start to something
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
Justice will always come.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
Hatred and violence will result to nothing but pain.
We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.
Black people don't deserve to judged as criminals.
Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Basically it's karma.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal"
Everyone's equal in the eye's of God
"and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."
Have faith in God for all you do.
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, and 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! Thank God Almighty we are free at last!
We should treat everyone fairly and equally.
Outline
I. Introduction
a. Emancipation Proclamation- joyous daybreak for Negros
b. 100 years after, Negros are still not free
II. Body
a. "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal.
b. This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
III. Conclusion
a. My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
b. Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
Summary
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Speech: I have a dream.
Emancipation Proclamation and The Declaration of Independence was mentioned to show that there has been a decree for freedom
People of their time forgot the decrees and ignored them for tradition's sake of belittling people of color.
He gives insight to what should be done and that freedom actually is.
Stating that even black people should have the same rights as that of a privileged white man.
People have come to hear his speech of freedom, even their oppressors as allies attended to hear him.
He will not be satisfied until there are no more labels of the segregation between the two races. Until children can live without judgment and their rights as human beings restored.
He will not stand to have the people of color be told to go back to the ghettos and slums just because of petty differences.
He has an american dream to have all men be treated equal for people to sit together without spite. For children to be together without being told that they can't be friends because of it.
He hopes and knows that one day they will be free from this hardship. He sings and yerns for freedom.
One day we will all be Go'd children with no boundaries and pray they they will all be free at last.
Questions
To whom is the speech addressed to?
Were they acknowledged by the government after this?
What inspired him to create such a speech?
How did the speech influence the people today?
Will the speech make as big of an impact to today if said again to the public?