Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have a Dream" Speech Aug. 28, 1963
More than 40 years ago America was captivated with Martin Luther Kings breath-taking Speech ‘ I have a dream’ from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
His Speech portrayed a none idealised American dream, but a demand for racial justice. Through his words, the nation was given vocabulary to understand and express the turbulent social and political situation at that time, in 1963.
The key message in the speech was that everyone is born equal even though that wasn’t the case in America then. He strongly argued in passionate way that it should be a concern for the future. During Dr.Matin Luther King’s life, he attempted to acquaint virtues to African Americans. Dr.Matin Luther King Jr. proved that by being virtuous one could help solve problems of racism. Even thought he wasn’t a virtuous person, he tried to live everyday of his life with the virtues he so strongly spoke about such as courage, justice and equality. With these he lived his life trying to break through racism.
Today in the United States, everyone has equal rights, but we still see it today. The process of equal rights has slowly developed. People like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks contributed to the improvement. Someone had to break the barriers to make America what it is now. Negroes can now vote and become members of parliament, African Americans can play major league basketball, everyone can have a choice of where to sit in on the bus , everyone can drink from the same public water fountains and share the same public restroom even have lunch in the same restaurants. This shows that’s segregation no longer exists in America. During Martin Luther King Jr. all of these things were illegal, they were only legal for the whites. Today there are laws that prohibit this. The laws have clearly changed, now everyone has opportunities without barriers.
Taking into consideration the whole issue, one should rethink Whether being a good citizen makes you a good person. They do not involve the same things. We are not obliged to be a good person how ever in every bad person lays a good one with in. A good person is someone whom doesn’t necessarily obey all the rules or never breaks any laws, but someone who would help a blind man cross a road. Instead being a good Citizen is someone whom obeys rules and laws but not fanatically, it’s someone whom is doing something that is fairly advantaging oneself as well the society they live in.
I don’t believe that one can be taught how to be a virtuous person, but what I believe in, is that one can be taught some strengths of virtue. I also feel that parent’s play a very important role in their child’s up bringing. They can teach them to be respectful and about justice and make them aware of what is right and what is wrong. Further more I believe that society has a major role in the child up brining. Today we still see racism, but there are places, which lack some virtues more than others.
