Washington Dc Speeches

"Mom, Dad, can I please please go on this trip? Please! Can I go to Washington DC/ New York trip please! Pretty please with a cherry on top!" Have you asked this to your parents before or yet? Every year, for the eighth graders, they go in their Washington DC/ New York trip. This trip is an educational trip to see important monuments and landmarks. You will get a very fun and educational experience, if you go. If your child/children go to this trip they will make memories with their friends that will last for a life time. Here are some reasons that will show you that you should let your child/children go to this trip.

No matter how we see ourselves, there will always be somebody who says we’re not good enough to be on the same level on them, when in reality, we are no different than them. Back in the mid 1900’s, African Americans had moved out of slavery and into segregation, their life taking a bittersweet turn into something that would change history forever. The Jim Crow Laws were made not named after a person, but using the slang word for black man “Jim” and the symbolism of the black crow. These laws were set to protect mainly the whites and it clearly highlighted where the African Americans stood in the social tower of America. Most Africans Americans had to live through the massive transition of slavery to segregation, but those born into it didn’t

The black race has faced many hardships throughout American history. The harsh treatment is apparent through the brutal slavery era, the Civil Rights movement, or even now where sparks of racial separation emerge in urbanized areas of Baltimore, Chicago, and Detroit. Black Americans must do something to defend their right as an equal American. “I Am Not Your Negro” argues that the black race will not thrive unless society stands up against the conventional racism that still appears in modern America. “The Other Wes Moore” argues an inspiring message that proves success is a product of one’s choices instead of one’s environment or expectations.

Sixty years ago, racism plagued our society as a whole. In our courts, employment, and even some places that a child should be safe, like at schools. African Americans and any people that weren't Caucasian, were unfairly charged with many crimes. Without the right to a just and fair trial. The rights that every human being deserves, even some fundamental, weren't given to them. They used separate bathrooms that were immeasurably filthy compared to the Caucasian’s bathrooms. Their children enrolled in different schools that gave an inadequate education, setting them up for an eventual failure. They could be beaten, spit on, shunned, and many other things, with the offenders undergoing no consequences. All of this, just for an undoubtedly irrelevant reason, the color of their skin. But one man changed this. Through the action of peaceful speeches, marches, and showing love. His name is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The most significant point learned from the discussions and readings of last week was that there has been a system of oppression against African Americans for 250 years and counting. I knew of their oppression, but I was saddened to see how far back it went, and how the unfavorable circumstances of their relatives continue to haunt them today: “As a rule, poor black people do not work their way out of the ghetto—and those who do often face the horror of watching their children and grandchildren tumble back.” It struck me as exceedingly unfair that “whites born into affluent neighborhoods tended to remain in affluent neighborhoods, blacks tended to fall out of them.” - the system is horrible, and I wish there were a way to go back in time to have pulled it out at its roots.

“But one hundred years later, 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 an exile in his own land. And so we 've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.” (Martin Luther King Jr).

From the start of American history, social change has been very apparent, particularly in relation to creating equality for all. Throughout several societal transformations in the United State’s timeline, the exhausting struggle for equal rights has been the most compelling and prolonged. This is specifically viewed in detail within the realm of the civil rights movements during the 1950s to 1960s. Although slavery was eradicated in 1863 through the Emancipation Proclamation, which was an executive order enacted by President Lincoln to bring freedom and liberty to blacks, rising conflicts between diverse races in the United States still continues to this day. As the movement progressed, driven activists have developed innovative methods to

Through his words in the “ I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr inspires change to create a more just society. Martin Luther King Jr believes our past shouldn't define our future, that the future shouldn't be the same as our past. In his speech he says “ 100 years later the Negro still is not free. 100 years later the life of a Negro is still badly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.” One hundred years later Martin Luther King sees the United States as unchanged, he views segregation and discrimination as a different type of slavery.

Today I have chosen two speeches which are critical to the growth and development that our nation has gone through. Two men from different backgrounds and different times with one common goal, equality for all. The Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” and Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” both address the oppression of the African-Americans in their cultures. Though one hundred years and three wars divide the two documents, they draw astonishing parallels in they purposes and their techniques.

I come before you tonight not to bury the current U.S. in insults and criticism, but to raise her high like the precious gift of the statue of liberty that was given to this country from France out fo pure thankfulness and respect.

I love South Western High School! I think that I deserve to represent my school and be a Princess. I am always showing my school pride during spirit weeks, dressing up for everyday. I love going to cheer on other sports teams in the student sections and dressing up to the themes. I am a South West legacy, my parents (including step) and all my aunts and uncles went to South West and I take that to heart showing it in my school pride. Being a part of Key Club is important to me. The community gives so much to my school and they deserve it back. It also makes the community see how good we, students, are. Throughout a week I probably spend 2 hours with Key Club, but all year I have spent more than 50 hours. I am also very dedicated to my sports

Since the beginning of the United States of America becoming one union has been the driving force in the lives of many people. Major Ownes, who was a New York politician as well as a member of the Democratic Party once said, “What is our biggest enemy? Segregation.” However, what he failed to put into his quote was the racial equality was an even bigger enemy. Far beyond the days of the Civil War and even the American Revolution, African American people have been looked down upon because of the color of our skin. Whereas in today’s society having African American blood run through your veins is seen as somewhat of a pleasure, even an honor, so to speak this was not always the case.

The Freedom of Equality states, “... African-Americans continue to suffer discrimination because of the historic consequences of their skin color, … been enslaved and then only partially freed.” to demonstrate the still existence of discrimination to minorities after past slavery events. “It took years of bitter and divisive struggles to change this kind of broad discrimination … blood was spilled, it was shocking to observe the degree of racial prejudice among people” (Carter). The saddest part of it all is, history repeats.

They say we will amount to nothing more than cotton pickers and a good laugh, that our pigmentation is the reason we are equivalent to dirt.For years we have tolerated torment from the men of white skin, become accustomed to the degrading names yelled by slave masters, and immune our bodies to be whipped senseless. Even as the son of a free black woman, as a free black man the simplicity of the idea of freedom did not bless my life. Soon enough I became familiar to the humiliation of prejudicism not to mention a witness to the injustice of slavery.My brown eyes have observed a colored son force to beat his mother to death for the enertainment of his slave master. This moment instituted a revelation for change in my mind. It is time, that we

“Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the sting darts of segregation to say, “Wait” (809).” Martin Luther King Jr appeals