“I Have a Dream Speech” by Martin Luther King

Introduction

In the summer of 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. gave the most famous public address, "I Have A Dream", in March in Washington. This is perhaps most effectively, his leadership speaker was obvious. He appealed to the Bible and national values embodied movement for civil rights movement and to which he spoke in first person "I" in his speech.

He appealed, and sought the best of America. Moreover, his speech was to call a declaration of hope for all mankind. These noble aspirations were severely disrupted only three weeks later in Birmingham, when the bomb exploded on Sunday morning at church, killing four little girls. King was there to preach their funerals. Martin Luther King knew that his calling to preach.

It was sometimes embarrassing when thrown into a different role. In 1964, the civil rights movement, the crisis has reached another moment when he challenged the room all-white Mississippi delegation at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Cast in the highly political role, his counsel failed to hold together the center of the alliance between the leaders of movements and the administration of President Lyndon Johnson. However, the king felt more obliged to political action, even when he led a movement began to falter. Danville and St. Augustine's campaign has been frustrating confrontations, but Selma put a major political issue of voting rights directly on the table.

The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort but where he stands at the time of challenge and controversy.

Discussion on the theme "I Have A Dream" Speech

King stressed the moral four points:

1. American militarism to destroy the war on poverty

2. American chauvinism breeds violence, despair and contempt for the law in the United States

3. Use of Colored People against people of color abroad is a "cruel manipulation of the poor", (Adam 326)

4. Human rights should be judged by one criterion everywhere.

After the civil rights movement that Dr. King had been used so dramatically, it's flooding social programs aimed at addressing the causes and consequences of racism. Cultural education, intercultural dialogue, as well as the current multi-culturalism all hearken back to the civil rights movement in their mandates.

Morality brings with it an implicit moral relativism. Who can say what is good and what is bad? Moral relativism suggests that there is no absolute, to which we can all be brought to justice. Such ...