Martin L. King and Malcolm X Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were raised in different environments. King grew up in a safe middle-class family‚ while Malcolm X came from a poor home. Despite the different upbringings‚ they were both black and had a dream‚ but unfortunately never lived to see it become true. However‚ both men had become high images in the current African-American culture and had indeed a great influence on Afro-Americans in 1960’s. One was a great peaceful man who spoke to all
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Running head: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ’S SPEECH‚ "I HAVE A DREAM ’ Martin Luther King Jr. ’s Speech‚ "I Have a Dream ’ Marsha Spainhour Sandhills Community College Public Speaking Kathleen Kruska November 16‚ 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. ’s Speech‚ "I Have a Dream ’ The true test of a speech is born of its immediate impact and its long-term value as a rhetorical document. It is a small wonder that only a few speeches transcend their own moment in history and become resonant literature
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Introduction The speech ‘I have a dream’ is one of the most memorable speeches of all the times. This meaningful emotional speech was delivered by Dr.Martin Luther King Jr‚ on 28 August 1963. He delivered it from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial‚ in Washington‚ D.C. during the massive “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” In this speech Martin Luther King called for racial equality and an end to discrimination since Afro Americans were deprived of their rights even equal right were given them
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we follow? As time goes on laws change and new religions are found‚so what happens when temporal law is conflicted with divine law? Here‚ in the story‚ ‘Antigone’‚ that is the conflict of this story. We look at this play though the theories in Martin Luther King’s “Letters from a Birmingham Jail” which talks about the four key facts to civil disobedience:unjust law‚negotiation‚self-purification and direct action. Summary: In the play “Antigone” written by Sophocles‚ Antigone is the daughter of
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article’s of "Crito‚" by Plato‚ and "Letter from Birmingham Jail‚" by Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ two writers make a case over whether it is moral or not to disobey laws. The question to be answered in our final paper asks whether we agree with what the Laws say about if Socrates was to escape and why we feel that way. It also asks how we think Martin Luther King would have responded to the judgment of the Laws of Athens. In this paper‚ I will address these questions as well as do a quick overview of each
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Dr. Martin Luther King jr. inspired so many people‚ and taught us as americans what it really means to be free. “I have a Dream” Dr. King’s famous speech the touched each and everyone of us‚ showing and teaching us what it feels like to be an american. 50 years ago‚ at the Lincoln Memorial a speech was given about equal rights and what they mean‚ today it still inspires us. Now a days it may not be so much towards blacks‚ but towards everyone that this segregation is taking place. We are judging
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that Martin Luther King Jr. used in his speech is “one day even the state of Mississippi‚ a desert state‚ sweltering in the heat of injustice and oppression‚ will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.” I like this one because Mississippi was a horrible state that threatened African Americans‚ but King gave the people hope that even states like that can change. “One hundred years later” is the repetition that I find the most captivating to me. I love this repetition because king uses
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Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech "I have a dream" conveyed very meaningful and powerful images within the speech. Many images that make you not only imagine but feel the pain the black men and women felt back in those days‚ the discrimination‚ and hatred white men had towards the black. But for what reason? Because they weren’t white. They didn’t see them as equal and assumed they were better. This was all over a skin color. Dr. King speaks about that it is said "All men are created equal" but they
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We are one "I have a dream that 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” (King). One of the many quotes said by the famous Martin Luther King Junior. Mr. King was born on January 29 1929‚ in Atlanta‚ Georgia did not believe he would become so great. His speech changed the world bring peace and somewhat harmony. The true reason behind this speech and why it was so great lays in what he did
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Martin Luther King Jr. was a powerful man with good intentions for civil right. He wrote an extensive letter to eight clergymen who condemned the timing of the civil rights movement on April 16‚ 1963‚ from a jail in Birmingham‚ Alabama. Even though the letter was addressed to the clergymen‚ the message was geared towards a larger audience‚ especially King’s “Christian and Jewish brothers” (King). King believes that without direct action‚ the rights for African Americans could never be achieved. He
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