A How Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Influenced Me
“Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” That quote features the words of an old African American spiritual that slaves would sing. In 1963 at Washington DC, in front of the Lincoln Memorial, a man named Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used that quote as saying that all African Americans were free. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s speech and life has inspired modern society by fighting against racial prejudice, segregation and discrimination, and demanding the freedom and the security of justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr. fought to end racial prejudice along with segregation and discrimination. Slavery was supposed to end 100 years earlier in 1863, when President …show more content…
King especially wanted each man to be granted with freedom and liberty. Unlike “The Emancipation Proclamation”, about 100 years before that there was a document that promised every American to fall heir. The document was called “The Declaration of Independance.” “This note 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.” At the ending of his speech, he says: “This will be the day that all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.” which means that when African Americans and every person with a different skin color will come together, and sing because they know that they are free.
If it were not of that wonderful speech Dr. King presented, America would still be a mess, and we as Americans would be living in an unfree country. If Martin Luther King Jr. did not exist, who knows who would have made that speech and say “We are free at last!”That speech has changed everyone’s lives, and we are able to get along with one another. Thank you Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for making America all of it’s states and citizens be
“Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” That quote features the words of an old African American spiritual that slaves would sing. In 1963 at Washington DC, in front of the Lincoln Memorial, a man named Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used that quote as saying that all African Americans were free. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s speech and life has inspired modern society by fighting against racial prejudice, segregation and discrimination, and demanding the freedom and the security of justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr. fought to end racial prejudice along with segregation and discrimination. Slavery was supposed to end 100 years earlier in 1863, when President …show more content…
King especially wanted each man to be granted with freedom and liberty. Unlike “The Emancipation Proclamation”, about 100 years before that there was a document that promised every American to fall heir. The document was called “The Declaration of Independance.” “This note 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.” At the ending of his speech, he says: “This will be the day that all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.” which means that when African Americans and every person with a different skin color will come together, and sing because they know that they are free.
If it were not of that wonderful speech Dr. King presented, America would still be a mess, and we as Americans would be living in an unfree country. If Martin Luther King Jr. did not exist, who knows who would have made that speech and say “We are free at last!”That speech has changed everyone’s lives, and we are able to get along with one another. Thank you Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for making America all of it’s states and citizens be