At the ceremony commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the march, President Obama in his speech raises the issue of freedom and equality of all citizens. He starts his speech with memories of how fifty years ago, people from all corners of the country gathered together in Washington to protect the civil rights, voting rights, the eradication of legal discrimination. Barack Obama emphasizes that many of these people had only “the few dollars they scrimped from their labor”, therefore they were forced to get hitchhiking or go walking (Obama, 4). Despite the distance and difficulties on their way, they came to the March to change the injustice and “to awaken American’s long-slumbering conscience” (Obama, 4). The narrator makes a special
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They wanted to get the job, the economic opportunity, and the chance through honest work to find their place in life. In the speech, the President also mentions the great Luther King who “was describing has been the dream of every American. It's what's lured for centuries new arrivals to our shores. And it’s along this second dimension - of economic opportunity, the chance through honest toil to advance one’s station in life” (Obama, 19). However, the narrator also acknowledges that these goals of 50 years ago were implemented most short. As noted by Obama, “black unemployment has remained almost twice as high as white unemployment, Latino unemployment close behind. The gap in wealth between races has not lessened, it's grown” (Obama, 20). So pondering the issue of racial inequality, Barack Obama concludes that the struggle that people started fifty years ago still not finished and that there is still a lot to do for this country and its prosperity. Obama notices that success in achieving the goal can be gained only in case if all people work together, helping and compassionating for each other: “That’s where courage comes from - when we turn not from each other, or on each other, but towards one another, and we find that we do not walk alone” (Obama, 30). It is this courage, that the narrator told about, gives us the strength to keep going and defend our values and
They wanted to get the job, the economic opportunity, and the chance through honest work to find their place in life. In the speech, the President also mentions the great Luther King who “was describing has been the dream of every American. It's what's lured for centuries new arrivals to our shores. And it’s along this second dimension - of economic opportunity, the chance through honest toil to advance one’s station in life” (Obama, 19). However, the narrator also acknowledges that these goals of 50 years ago were implemented most short. As noted by Obama, “black unemployment has remained almost twice as high as white unemployment, Latino unemployment close behind. The gap in wealth between races has not lessened, it's grown” (Obama, 20). So pondering the issue of racial inequality, Barack Obama concludes that the struggle that people started fifty years ago still not finished and that there is still a lot to do for this country and its prosperity. Obama notices that success in achieving the goal can be gained only in case if all people work together, helping and compassionating for each other: “That’s where courage comes from - when we turn not from each other, or on each other, but towards one another, and we find that we do not walk alone” (Obama, 30). It is this courage, that the narrator told about, gives us the strength to keep going and defend our values and