"If you can 't fly then run, if you can 't run then walk, if you can 't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."- I Have a Dream.
From the moment Rosa Parks sat defiantly in her seat; from the moment she refused to give up her own seat for a white man; from that moment, her own actions sparked inspiration in others. That was the very start of the revolutionary civil rights movement in America. The start of resistance to wrongful segregation of white and black and hurtful discrimination. The start of Martin Luther King’s search for non-violent freedom. In the year 1955, after hearing that Rosa Parks had been arrested, King called for a church meeting and gathered people who only had one motive- fight back; fight …show more content…
As according to the Bible, the Israelites escaped from the enslaving chains of Egypt, with their Lord and Moses leading them into the vast desert for forty long years, to freedom. Leviticus chapter 20 verse 24 of the NIV Bible, explains that “I (God) will give it (the promised land) to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey,” as a reward to those who stayed loyal to Him during those years. We see in Deuteronomy chapter 34 titled The Death of Moses, where Moses recounts the troubled history of the Israelites. He climbed Mount Nebo in his last days, and looked at the overlooking view of the whole land of Canaan and the Jordan River, which was the Promised Land. Shortly after, Moses died. Martin Luther King specifically chose this extended metaphor of a journey and progress to safety and freedom, because it directly relates to the situation during his time. Like the Israelites, the Negroes were trying to free themselves from mistreatment inflicted upon them; they are trying to “rise up against oppression”; they are hoping for their own promised land. King is trying to say that there is a “somewhere”, there is a “place”, there is a future where things will be perfect. Like going through the desert for 40 years, the black population must travel the bumpy and difficult road. He brings a physical aspect to this, where they must march, walk, and protest to bring a thought, …show more content…
On the 3rd of April, 1968, King delivered one of his most popular speeches, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” Towards the end of his speech, he speaks of threats against his own life, which foreshadows his own impending death. “I just want to do God 's will. And He 's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I 've looked over. And I 've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.” Sadly, the very next day he assassinated on the balcony outside his room at Lorraine Hotel. And in similarity to Moses, King dies before he is able to see what he done to contribute to the American Promised
From the moment Rosa Parks sat defiantly in her seat; from the moment she refused to give up her own seat for a white man; from that moment, her own actions sparked inspiration in others. That was the very start of the revolutionary civil rights movement in America. The start of resistance to wrongful segregation of white and black and hurtful discrimination. The start of Martin Luther King’s search for non-violent freedom. In the year 1955, after hearing that Rosa Parks had been arrested, King called for a church meeting and gathered people who only had one motive- fight back; fight …show more content…
As according to the Bible, the Israelites escaped from the enslaving chains of Egypt, with their Lord and Moses leading them into the vast desert for forty long years, to freedom. Leviticus chapter 20 verse 24 of the NIV Bible, explains that “I (God) will give it (the promised land) to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey,” as a reward to those who stayed loyal to Him during those years. We see in Deuteronomy chapter 34 titled The Death of Moses, where Moses recounts the troubled history of the Israelites. He climbed Mount Nebo in his last days, and looked at the overlooking view of the whole land of Canaan and the Jordan River, which was the Promised Land. Shortly after, Moses died. Martin Luther King specifically chose this extended metaphor of a journey and progress to safety and freedom, because it directly relates to the situation during his time. Like the Israelites, the Negroes were trying to free themselves from mistreatment inflicted upon them; they are trying to “rise up against oppression”; they are hoping for their own promised land. King is trying to say that there is a “somewhere”, there is a “place”, there is a future where things will be perfect. Like going through the desert for 40 years, the black population must travel the bumpy and difficult road. He brings a physical aspect to this, where they must march, walk, and protest to bring a thought, …show more content…
On the 3rd of April, 1968, King delivered one of his most popular speeches, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” Towards the end of his speech, he speaks of threats against his own life, which foreshadows his own impending death. “I just want to do God 's will. And He 's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I 've looked over. And I 've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.” Sadly, the very next day he assassinated on the balcony outside his room at Lorraine Hotel. And in similarity to Moses, King dies before he is able to see what he done to contribute to the American Promised