Read the speech "I Have a Dream"and then write Select one of our readings listed in the syllabus, or one form the outside, and share how that reading reflects human rights through the lens of one of the following: Money/Power Gender/Identity Space/Place Differences/Similarities Institutions/Networks Inclusion/Exclusion

Read the speech "I Have a Dream"and then write

read and share how that reading reflects human rights through the lens of one of the following:

Money/Power

Gender/Identity

Space/Place

Differences/Similarities

Institutions/Networks

Inclusion/Exclusion


User_11018 added on 04/04/17 at 12:04 AM (PST):

This is the reading you should write passed on no plagiarism pleases

Address delivered by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, at the culmination of a March on Washington. In this eloquent, emotionally charged speech, the black civil rights leader described his vision of freedom and equality for all Americansblack and white, Jew and Gentile, Protestant and Catholic. "I still have a dream." he said. "It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream." It was a dream that the descendants of slaves and slave owners would live in brotherhood, that freedom and justice would replace oppression and injustice, that people would be judged on the basis of character not skin color. King looked forward to the day when all Americans could join in the spiritual refrain: "Free at last. Free at last; thank God Almighty, we are free at last."

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

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 in exile in his own land.

So we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was the promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note in so far as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check; a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy; now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice; now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood; now is the time to make justice a reality for all God's children. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content, will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquillity in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the worn 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 plain of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protests to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy, which has engulfed the Negro community, must not lead us to a distrust of all white people. For many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with out destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

There are those who are asking the devotees of Civil Rights: "When will you be satisfied?" 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 children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "For White Only"; we cannot be satisfied as long as the 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."

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi: Go back to Alabama: Go back to South Carolina: Go back to Georgia: Go back to Louisiana: Go back to the slums and ghettos of our Northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

So I say to you, my friends, that even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American 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." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream 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 Today!

I have a dream that one day in Alabamawith its vicious racists, with its Governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullificationone day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I Have a Dream Today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low. The rough places will be 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."

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. And this will be the day. This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning, "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my father died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountain side, let freedom ring." And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire; let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York; let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania; let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado; let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that. Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia; let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee; let freedom ring from every hill and mole hill of Mississippi. "From every mountainside, let freedom ring." And when this happens, and when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all 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; thank God Almighty, we are free at last."


User_11018 added on 04/06/17 at 11:49 AM (PST):


do the second part which is respond for one of my classmate. i will post here two or three of them, but respond for just one of them and told when finish which one you respond for.
I chose this article because in my opinion Martin Luther King's speech was the best one ever made.His ability to build on carisma, to be listened and followed is astonoshing. As a human being, probably one of the biggest "hearts" and freedom fighter that this earth has ever seen. Throughout his speech he talks about many different topics affecting minorities, but his main points have to do with freedom, justice and equality for everyone around the world. King not only aims to protect his own community and people around him, but he wants to protect all people, no matter the gender or race, the religion etc. His best quality was not only they way he could give a speech but his own actions, making him an example to follow, the typical leader by example. "I have a dream" was his way of expressing the tremendous fight for the human rights for everynoe, especially the black society, where the goals of voting, being pro active in politics, empower minorities so that everyone's ideas and voice could be heard. Amazing how one person, in this case, Martin Luther King, can make such a big difference in the world! We need more leaders like him!

2-In Dr. Martin Luther Kings speech as well as the movement, he was fighting equality for all. It was not just for African American, but for all types of ethnicities. In Dr. Martin Luther Kings time, African Americans were not treated equally. They were treated with exclusion because they did not have the same opportunities as those who were not of color. Dr. King voiced his opinion on the matter, which was not violent or harmful to others. He wanted to bring people together regardless of a persons race or ethnicity. Unlike Malcolm X, Dr. King understood the way to inclusion was to have some form of alliances with white people and work together. With that being said, I have been debating with a few of my peers (who are African American, Mexican, Dominican, Jamaican, and Caucasian) about Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, and the campaign of Black Lives Matter. The question I raised was if Martin Luther King were living today would he preach Black Lives Matter or All Lives Matter? I strongly believe that if Martin Luther King Jr. was living today he would preach All Live Matter. I think he preached equality for all humans, not just for African Americans. In the grand scheme, he may have been specifically talking about African Americans because they were being hugely discriminated against, but I believe he spoke for all. As I mentioned earlier, Dr. King understood the way to inclusion was to have some form of alliances with white people and work together with them. He did not single out that African American need to be treated equal, but all humans need to be treated equal. Overall, Dr. King reached a huge audience and spread his message of equality across the nation.

3-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech I have a Dream which addressed the civil and human rights of African Americans. He mentions the Emancipation Proclamation and how it brought light and a breakthrough for the slaves but still after one hundred years there were still slaves. African Americans were treated with disrespect and they were looked down upon. They had no freedom of speech and without it their voice wasn't hurd. The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence was also mentioned because in these documents there was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. After the signing of these papers there was no improvement. African Americans were still stripped of their identity,voting and civil right. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke up about all the brutality that African Americans received from the police and how they were singled out from the whites by signs.
Martin Luther King Jr. speaks out not only to the African American community but also to all the whites. He told everyone that supported him that African Americans would not be at peace until they receive civil right, get a chance to vote and they were treated just like any other person in the United States because at the end everyone is part of the same brotherhood. In his speech he fights for a chance of freedom and he wants the African American community to have an identity and a belonging. He wants them to have a place where they could call home. He does that by stating all of his dreams. Dreams that would lead the community into a more civil and liberal place.