The speech that Martin Luther King Jr. gave on April 3rd 1968 was one of the best speeches I have heard from him. His speech, “I have a Dream” is the speech that I like the most and “I’ve been to the Mountain top” is his second best in my opinion. I think it is a very good speech because of the stuff he says in it and how he says it. I relate to his speech in a bunch of different areas and I think he has a bunch of strong points that helps convince people to agree with him. Some of the keys things that he said that I relate to the most are when he talked about the blacks need to keep fighting. I think if you want something bad enough and you keeping fighting and striving for it then you will eventually get it and reach your goal. I was always taught if you’re going to do something do your very best and the results will come out in your favor most of the time but not all the time. He also talked about how it is everyone’s responsibility to watch out for eachother. I think that is a very true statement because this is a very crude and corrupt world and it we don’t have each other then who do we really have. One of the main points of the speech was that blacks of America cannot give up and they need to come together and keep fighting (Dr. Martin Luther King, 1968). I think that is true for today too but not one hundred percent true. I think in today's society the blacks and whites need to come together and become united. The world would be a whole lot become if
Some of which made a difference. A quote stated was “ We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism.” Another quote was “Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing is funny about that. The only reason they get mad at The Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we are politics.” One last quote that Hampton has read was “ Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We’re going to have to struggle. We are going to have struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace, because the people that were asking for peace, they are a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers, and they don’t even understand what peace
He knows that a black man's status is very little during that time, and he starts off his speech by stripping himself of status. He discounted any other identifying aspects about him by saying he is there as nothing else but a black man. He emphasizes that he is representing no one else but the people there that day by saying he was not their for a political part or religion. This makes him un-biased and credible to his audience.
He uses the idea of religion when he says "continue to work with faith". This quote gives hope to the negros because it tells them to start wakening up their souls and start to work more spiritually. This quote also tell the audience that equality should be everywhere and for everyone not only for the black Americans but in fact for all religions.
The Americans that were desperate for their rights needed a strong , influential leader to stand up for them and convince the entire country that they were equal no matter who they are. I have just heard of this address but the late John F Kennedy stood up and told the country on tv and radio a great speech concerning civil rights. That speech helped the nation for the better and made a lot of people question their choices on how they have been treating their fellow humans and it definetly made the black community question how
The most important main idea in this speech is that there is never a better time to fight for the negro’s freedom than NOW. “It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of this moment.” (King #1) Martin Luther King wants everyone to fight with him so future generations will have their freedom. This helps develop the central idea because right after the main idea, Martin Luther King restates the central idea. The main idea
All the speeches I listened to were thought provoking, interesting, and well presented. Martin Luther King Jr's speech was the most effective in my opion because he appeared to be very passionate about African-American people's right to freedom and fair treatment as citizens. I know that Severn Cullis-Suzuki's speech is very good as wekk as emotionally appealing but I felt that King's speech caused more of a reaction from me, personally. It is even more impressive that King's speech was performed in front of thousands of people while the speach Severn Cullis-Suzuki appeared to be to a much smaller crowd. When King says “This will be the day, this will be the day when all God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning”(p.2), it sounds
The most successful speech of all time, how he voices that African-Americans are free of slavery but not free of segregation and discrimination. Demanding racial equality between black and white emphasizing peace, respect, and fairness for every human being, to fight for their right not
my goals, my own; get used to me.” He gave many speeches including the famous “Black Is best” to many african americans.
I have always been moved by Martin Luther King’s “ I have a dream” speech. His ability to impact the minds and hearts of the American people was a great accomplishment. He had unwavering confidence as he delivered his convictions. The purpose of this speech is to inspire change in both white and black citizens of the United States during the Civil Rights era. He had the skill to capture the attention of the audience by highlighting the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln emphasizing the freeing of slaves. I thought he did well imploring emotion to get his points across.
gave several speeches while being a civil rights leader and his “I Have a Dream” speech was the most famous one. In the speech, Martin Luther King Jr. talks about his “dream” where he wants states such as Alabama and Mississippi, which were filled with racists, to treat black people the same way they treat white people. He really wanted racial equality because of the racial and social aspects of society that he saw were wrong as a child.“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal”( King Jr. par. 2).”I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and little white girls as sisters and brothers”( King Jr. par.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a great inspiration to the nation. He helped to achieve racial equality. In order to convince the audience of creating racial equality, he uses words to provoke, calm, and inspire in his famous I Have a Dream speech. Using these words, he creates a connection with the audience, and he gained their trust. Cesar Chavez also gave a speech that provoked, calmed, and inspired the audience to come together and get rid of pesticides because it is causing many diseases among adults, as well as children. He also mentions King many times to gain the audience’s trust.
In the black live matter presentation he tells us about how we can change somethings in society like you can stand up for people in need and that you can fight for what you believe in. he tells us about how some people try to change somethings in society back then by telling us about how a grouped formed to make a protest for how they made color people sit in the back that is how rosa parks
While having race the main theme in his speech he also, at the same time, places it on the back burner while still addressing America as a whole. He did a very good job in mixing the two and bringing up the key importance with both situations that America is still facing today. As stated in his speech “If we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and sole challenges like health care or education or the need to find jobs for every American.” In his speech as was a big chunk was his defense on Reverend Wright, while he did defend his relationship he also did a very
“I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
He said that, we should not put ourselves on the top and think about how each of us is the only person in the world instead of sharing the world with others. It is always about us, as long as we have the opportunity to get an advantage; if we do not care about others, it creates an immoral disadvantage for others based on race, gender or other anything that makes others uncomfortable. As he stated , “I see myself as white American, a man, a husband, and father, it would be wrong for me to fail to publicly acknowledge and reject the Bigotry” Also, denying an opportunity to others is another form of racism.