Response on the "I have a dream" speech

It's 1961, you walk into a restaurant after a hard day’s work, your starving. When you walk in you don't see any signs or discrimination around, a twinkle of hope sparkles in the distance. Soon your are sadly reminded when the waiter says there is no more room on the black side of the restaurant. You look to see that the white side is nearly empty. Do you dare sit over with the white people? No you don't for the fear that you will be thrown in jail and or killed from some crazy person. Finally you just leave the restaurant, as you leave you feel a cold tear trickle down your face. Why does it have to be like this why can't every man just be treated equal? We are all just human and shouldn't be judged by the color of our skin but by the content of our character.



Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most influential speakers of the 60’s. He shined a new light on what everyone thought about discrimination and racism. Each word was like a dagger to your heart, as you realized the true meaning and depth of what he was saying. He was also a very brave man speaking up for yourself in the 60’s wasn’t the best or easiest thing to do, but that didn’t stop the King. I personally am glad he spoke up and I believe as if he was an angel in disguise almost, because he was the voice for the black’s in the 60’s, and if it wasn’t for him we might not be where we are today. But since he did speak up and let the world hear him, he saved the world, he saved us from all the problems discrimination and racism can cause and showed us a new way. He told us “I have a dream, a dream that one day little white boys and white girls can hold hands with little black boys and little black girls as brothers and sisters.” “ I have a dream, that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." These are just examples of some of the pure truths that stab at your heart. But like they say to every dark cloud there is a silver lining, meaning to dark time in your life there’s a light from somewhere shining on the other side, there is a blessing down the road just be patient and it will come. Finally in 1964 it was done. Finally black’s and white could sit, eat, and drink together. We were finally all united as people and we were all treated equal. At last you were not judged by the color of your skin but by the content of your character. “At last, at last, Thank God almighty we’re free at last.”