Perhaps one of the most important pioneers of social justice was social activist and Baptist Minister Martin Luther King, Jr. His speech presented in 1963, “I Have a Dream”, sparked a new wave of social change. This essay will summarize the King Biography, and then analyze and react to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech “I Have a Dream.” On January 15, 1929 in rural Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born to Michael King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. King was the middle child of…
Introduction Martin Luther King Jr. had many talents, one of his strongest was his ability to convey his message via the written word or oration. In King’s letter from Birmingham jail, he utilized several persuasive methods to gain the reader’s buy-in. Some of the more obvious techniques were two-sided messaging and “ethos (credibility), logos (reason), and pathos (emotion)” (Higgins 2012) to leverage a mutual understanding by the involved parties (p 195). “King’s greatest political pluralism…
Martin Luther King Jr. is the most valuable person to many people and to show that he is one of two people to have a holiday in their honor in America. A quote by Martin Luther King Jr. is Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. This quote might mean a lot to some people because the quote is saying that love is the key to peace. Martin Luther King Jr. had many secrets that not many people knew of and some that everyone knows…
On January 15th, 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. (his birth name was originally Michael King, Jr.) was born in Atlanta, Georgia. The parents of this remarkable man were Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr., a highly religious man, and Alberta Williams King. He had a younger brother, Alfred Daniel Williams King, born July 30th, 1930, and one elder sister, Christine King Farris, born September 11th, 1927. When King was only 6, his father took a trip to Germany, and once he returned from his trip, was…
It imposes unconstitutional and immoral laws that limit the rights of it's citizens, preventing the growth of the nation as a whole. At these times, civil disobedience is a necessity and the duty of those who believe in their cause. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was the perfect example of what it meant to protest using civil disobedience. He understood that in order to promote change, sometimes breaking the law is required to create change. At Birmingham, he…
Who is one person who inspired everyone and had a dream of equality. Can you guess who this person is ? Martin Luther King Jr. was an inspire and and inspired me by doing what he did and how much he loved his people for everyone one having rights. Just because you are a different race or skin color does not mean you are better than them or treat them poorly. That is how MLK inspired me. He stood up for himself and his nation for equality.” All men are created equal.” Declaration of Independence.…
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15th, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was born right before the Great Depression. No one in his community growing up obtained wealth, but no one was extremely poor. Martin Luther King Jr. was the son of Michael Luther King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. Martin Luther King Jr. was given the name of Michael Luther King Jr., but changed it when he got older due to the differences he had with his father. At a young age, King made friends with white children,…
an African American man named Martian Luther King Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. This speech was called, I Have a Dream. Martian Luther King Jr. discussed why it was important that blacks and whites were treated as equals, not separates. Why was this speech so powerful one may ask? Some believe that it was due to the emotion, many believe it was because of the timing of the speech, there are multiple reasons why it was effective. Martin Luther King Jr. was not necessarily…
Throughout American history, there were numerous influential speeches made by countless important activists, but there were only a few that stood out amongst the crowd. Martin Luther King and Malala Yousafzai were some of these few people, their impassioned speeches, “ I Have a Dream” and Malala UN speech, motivated and inspired various of people across the world and created a huge impact on American society. Although they targeted their speeches towards different topics, focused on different…
I believe Martin Luther King was right when he said it is “wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends.” This quote came from a letter in The Birmingham Jail that Martin luther king wrote to clear up confusion or false ideas others may have of him or what he was doing. Martin luther King was a civil rights activist who seeked equal rights in every state, who promoted non-violence protests, and following the law when it is just and standing up when it is corrupt. Martin luther King was…