I Have a Dream...
This speech was about the fight for equality between blacks and whites. Martin Luther King Jr. talked about how the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves, yet the negro is still not free, “crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.” How the signing of the Declaration of Independence was a promise that all men are guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but America didn't keep that promise for the black man. King believes that there is still hope for opportunities of justice and equality and freedom, that segregation will turn into racial justice, and that it will be a reality for all of God’s children. Negroes won’t stop until they receive citizen rights, until there is no more police brutality; until the day a fatigued traveler can stay in any hotel without being turned away based on the color of his skin.
White freedom is inextricably tied to the freedom of the black man, and Negroes won’t be satisfied until their children are no longer stripped of their dignity every time they see a “for whites only” sign, or the negro in Mississippi can vote, and the negro in New York has something worth voting for. King has a dream that one day the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners are able to sit down at the table of brotherhood. He dreams that people will be judged not based on the color of their skin but the content of their character, and that little black boys and girls will join hand with little white boys and girls as brothers and sisters. He hopes that injustice and oppression transform into freedom and justice, and won’t be satisfied until all of God’s children are singing “Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I’m free at last.”
The famous “I Have A Dream” speech relates to my thesis because Martin Luther King Jr. is talking all about the injustice and inequality still seen between blacks and whites. Despite the fact that the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves, blacks still aren't free as long as their civil liberties are being restricted by the powerful white man in American society. My thesis states that Americans have rights without the freedom to use them. Negroes barely have any rights, and their freedoms are still being taken away by white people. They are being oppressed and Martin Luther King Jr. hopes that one day everything will change, and that one day all men will be equal. But since they’re not all equal, it can be said that the rights blacks do have are being limited, and until they have their full, unrestricted rights, African Americans will never have their freedom.
White freedom is inextricably tied to the freedom of the black man, and Negroes won’t be satisfied until their children are no longer stripped of their dignity every time they see a “for whites only” sign, or the negro in Mississippi can vote, and the negro in New York has something worth voting for. King has a dream that one day the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners are able to sit down at the table of brotherhood. He dreams that people will be judged not based on the color of their skin but the content of their character, and that little black boys and girls will join hand with little white boys and girls as brothers and sisters. He hopes that injustice and oppression transform into freedom and justice, and won’t be satisfied until all of God’s children are singing “Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I’m free at last.”
The famous “I Have A Dream” speech relates to my thesis because Martin Luther King Jr. is talking all about the injustice and inequality still seen between blacks and whites. Despite the fact that the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves, blacks still aren't free as long as their civil liberties are being restricted by the powerful white man in American society. My thesis states that Americans have rights without the freedom to use them. Negroes barely have any rights, and their freedoms are still being taken away by white people. They are being oppressed and Martin Luther King Jr. hopes that one day everything will change, and that one day all men will be equal. But since they’re not all equal, it can be said that the rights blacks do have are being limited, and until they have their full, unrestricted rights, African Americans will never have their freedom.