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Martin Luther King's Dream

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"I HAVE A DREAM" "I have a dream." What a wondrous quote from the beloved Martin Luther King Jr. We know of his dream well. It is one of freedom, of peace, of love. But how well, exactly, do we know what is beyond the contents of this dream? By which I mean its origin. What created this great man's dream? Of course, it all begins in his boyhood, and many of the events consisting of his adventures as a child. For any young child, it is the earliest of memories that make you up to be who you are today. Martin knew this well. At the age of six, he lost friends to the vicious clutches of racial discrimination. Two boys, sons of a white storekeeper, became forbidden from playing baseball, or at all, with him. The reason: the color of his skin. How saddening it must have been for his mother to look into the eyes of her bright child and explain segregation. Even the youth were poisoned with hate towards anyone with a divergent completion. This would soon encourage M.L. to make a difference. …show more content…

Martin experienced this often, but one time he would soon recognize when it became too much. While shopping for shoes, a shoe salesman ordered him and his father to move to a contrasting side of the store, the "colored" section, none the less. Enraged, Pastor King claimed that they will "either buy shoes sitting here or won't buy shoes at all" storming out with M.L. If losing childhood friends wasn't an eye opener on the absurdity of segregation, this event would surely do

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