Martin Luther King's Struggle For Freedom

I live in a bubble! I live in a very tiny bubble! I live in the bubble of Oberlin! Oberlin is a small city in Ohio. In this city we have a college, I grew up with people walking around barefoot in the middle of summer. I grew up not passing judgment on anybody, I was privileged to never see judgement. I did not see my first fight until I was in the eighth grade. I know now that there are some cities where a child may catch glimpses of gang fights outside of their kindergarten classroom. I was able to express my opinions without the thought of being yelled at or having to fight for my life. I was able to ride my bike up and down the street without being monitored for my safety. I was able to be a child! However, now that I have grown up, my …show more content…
White men, Black men, Women and even children. War was the way of creating freedom. Until Martin Luther King decided that a peaceful protest could be a better way of gaining freedom. He said in is I have a dream speech that “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 negroes is the victim” (King,688-699). However nobody should be the victim, not the purple,orange, yellow, children, polka dotted people white or black. When a country puts those labels on people they become aggressive because they do not having a label. My label would read white, german american under 18 girl. Most people can tell that by looking at me besides maybe the german but why is it necessary to label people. It would be like going into a room of close family members and having to wear a “Hello my name is and this is my background” sticker. America is called the melting pot, because the country as a wide range of people. However the country tries to stop being from having freedom. “Let America be America again./ let it be the dream it used to be./ Let it be the pioneer on the plain./ seeking a home where he himself is free. (Hughes 1-4) Immigrants came here because we had a government that allows the people to be free completely and …show more content…
In an Ideal society people of every culture of every background should be able to be open about themselves. War is pointless if everybody can get along which would happen if there was no judgement. If people can get along then there would be freedom for the orange, polka dotted, homosexual and purple people. However fun is a nessairity life is boring without the spontaneous road trips to walmart to get a game of chess to play with a best friend late at night. Wanting and ideal society and having an ideal are very different ideas because what would one's idea of an ideal society