American Dream Speech

The “American Dream” is the way an American wants to live his or her life. It is an old fashioned idea that anyone in the United States, if they work hard enough, can reach eternal happiness. Many citizens in other countries hear about this dream and want to pursue it. Anyone can achieve their “American Dream” if a person speaks their mind, willing to work hard, and who stands up for what is right. Dr. King was working on his American Dream before he was assassinated in 1968. His dream was to end segregation and discrimination in public places. “I have a dream… [that] little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers,” (King 703-704). He wanted to stop all of the racial
Martin Luther King Jr., a baptist minister and leader in the civil rights movement, was spoken on August 28th, 1963. It was a march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. During the speech, Dr. King spoke about the country not being fair and equal to the African American community; however, Dr. King, along with the rest of the community knew the United States had the abilities to treat its citizens correct. “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,” (King 702). King wants the African American people to have their rights, that way those citizens can reach their American Dream. Even though the country had racial prejudice, it was possible to change their lives to do with them what they wanted. Reaching a dream to achieve eternal happiness is not easy, especially when other people are making it harder than it needs to be, but it is
King wrote a famous letters, a Letter From Birmingham Jail, to the Clergymen in the city. Dr. King and his followers were invited into the city because the citizens were showing terrible racism and prejudice. For example, there had been more bombings of negro houses and churches than any other town in the south. “I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood,” (King 720). While sitting in a jail cell, Dr. King was thinking about all of the reasons he was in the town; in addition, he was considering ways to help Birmingham change for the better. Most of the techniques used by Dr. King were nonviolent. Using nonviolent techniques, helped bring problems into the media because the nonviolent citizens were being attacked, usually in extremely violent ways. Although the country was being unfair and brutal, citizens were determined to reach their American Dreams; additionally, the American Dream is reachable if effort is put