'I have a dream' by Martin Luther King

It was late in the afternoon of a hot August day in Washington, D.C. People were tired from a long day of traveling and then listening to hours of speeches. But the huge crowd facing the Lincoln Memorial applauded a long welcome when the man they most wanted to hear--the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.--stood up to speak to them.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a fine and strong man and should be viewed as such, along with other American heroes, such as Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington. He truly believed in his philosophy till his death. Reformation was a religious movement of the 1500's that led to Protestantism. This movement had an impact on social, political, and economic life. Before the reformation, Europe had been held together by the universalism of the Catholic Church and the claim of the Holy Roman emperor. After the reformation Europe had several large Protestant churches and smaller Protestant religious groups. From the result of the Reformation, Europe was divided between the Catholic counties of the south and the Protestant countries of the north. This diversity of religious life created a mood of religious toleration and the respect for the importance of individual conscience. The Reformation also stimulated many reforms within the Catholic Church. Martin Luther believed that he could change something that he believed in. Martin protested some of the practices in the Catholic Church. He stood up for what he wanted to change. He had enough guts to stand and protest what was wrong. People around the world protest for what they believe in and stand up for their rights. Our past history influences us everyday. We go through the same things they went through.

“I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation”, King began speaking for just under nineteen minutes, he closed by setting aside his prepared speech and improvising the words that history would best remember him by: “I have a dream”, he said, “that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character . . ..

“And when we allow freedom to ring . . . we will be able to speed up that ...