Have you been to the mountaintop? No? Guess who has. That's right Martin Luther King Jr, one of the most inspirational speakers in history, fighting for equality for all. His last speech “I've been to the mountaintop” was an emotional, heart wrenching speech that he used to convey his feelings and the duties of those who follow to push on with or without him. For he has been to the mountaintop…
In this time, African Americans were mistreated in everything they did, from their daily lives, to their lowly lives as sanitation workers. And King was aware of this issue...“The issue is the refusal of Memphis to be fair and honest in its dealings with its public servants, who happen to be sanitation workers.” What's worse is the press …show more content…
If you chose equality, you are correct! Except it's more than that, put yourself in their shoes… You have a job, not a job you like, but it's a job. Now you're struggling to survive on what you make, but you do so nonetheless. Then you hear about a man, a black man, who is rallying fellow African Americans who are tired of below average, low paying, unfair jobs. (Yours to be exact). Now what would you do? Put aside today's world and travel with me to back then. Would you join me with the others, ready to give their lives to and for this cause? Would you join me in Birmingham in front of Bull Connor and his band of “mistreaters”? As King said, “Bull Connor would tell them to send the dogs forth, and they did come. But we just went before the dogs singing, ‘Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around.’ Bull Connor next would say, ‘Turn the fire hoses on.’” “And that was the fact that there was a certain kind of fire that no water could put out. And we went before the fire hoses. We had known water.” They did all this for freedom, equality, justice nothing else. Again I ask, what would you do? They “just went on before the dogs and they would look at them, and they'd go on before the water hoses and they would look at it. And they'd just go on singing,Over my head, I see freedom in the air.” Freedom one man had seen, seen from the mountaintop, into the
In this time, African Americans were mistreated in everything they did, from their daily lives, to their lowly lives as sanitation workers. And King was aware of this issue...“The issue is the refusal of Memphis to be fair and honest in its dealings with its public servants, who happen to be sanitation workers.” What's worse is the press …show more content…
If you chose equality, you are correct! Except it's more than that, put yourself in their shoes… You have a job, not a job you like, but it's a job. Now you're struggling to survive on what you make, but you do so nonetheless. Then you hear about a man, a black man, who is rallying fellow African Americans who are tired of below average, low paying, unfair jobs. (Yours to be exact). Now what would you do? Put aside today's world and travel with me to back then. Would you join me with the others, ready to give their lives to and for this cause? Would you join me in Birmingham in front of Bull Connor and his band of “mistreaters”? As King said, “Bull Connor would tell them to send the dogs forth, and they did come. But we just went before the dogs singing, ‘Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around.’ Bull Connor next would say, ‘Turn the fire hoses on.’” “And that was the fact that there was a certain kind of fire that no water could put out. And we went before the fire hoses. We had known water.” They did all this for freedom, equality, justice nothing else. Again I ask, what would you do? They “just went on before the dogs and they would look at them, and they'd go on before the water hoses and they would look at it. And they'd just go on singing,Over my head, I see freedom in the air.” Freedom one man had seen, seen from the mountaintop, into the