I Have A Dream Martin Luther King
The speech started expressing how happy Martin Luther King was to join in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom.
Claims & Evidences
He mentioned the approval of Emancipation Proclamation, and that being a beacon of hope to the black slaves. However, he concluded that the "negro" after 100 years is still not free, that they still lack freedom and, still stuck in the chains of discrimination.
With this being said, he still encouraged his people not to fight fire with fire, that they should not engulf themselves with hatred and bitterness, instead they will conduct their struggle with discipline and dignity
He then said that the black will not be satisfied until the discriminatiom, brutality against black people will stop, that they will never be satisfied until freedom and true liberty is achieved.
He said that he had a dream whereas children will one day live in a nation where they where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. That the negros will finally be able to be free from chains of discrimination and they will no longer be segrated or treated poorly and unfairly
That one day, freedom will ring throught United States or the rest of the world even, and when that day comes 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!"
The Black People 100 years after the
signing of Emancipation Proclamation is still not free
"the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an shameful condition."
He advised his people not to fight fire with fire
that they will struggle with dignity and discipline
- But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be 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. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.*
They will not stop until true freedom
is achieved
He dreamt of being free and being able to enjoy without judgement from their skin color but with the contents of their heart
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We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.
We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.
We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.
We can never be satisfied as long as our chlidren are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "for whites only."
We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a 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.
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exhalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
Questions
Are the Negros in our days still suffer discrimination?
How do people discriminate black people back then? Is discrimination still prominent or the same today?
Do the problems stated in the text can still be seen today?
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