Martin Luther King: Man of Peace
Hope is like a dream come true. It’s not about skin color; it’s about character. Martin Luther King Jr. had a famous speech talking about how one shouldn’t be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. King organized peaceful protest in order to fight for their rights of all men. He thought if things got violent then he wouldn’t get what he wanted. Kings dream was for all to come together instead of living in a world so separate, a dream where all men are equal.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a man of peace; King once said, “I have a dream this afternoon that my four little children will not come up in the same young days that I came up within, but they will be judged on the basis of the content of their character, not the color of their skin.” He wished his children didn’t live the way he did as a child, living in a world separate for being judged by their skin. King dreamed for their lives to not be that way.
The article “Minister, Civil Right Activist” talks about how separated is never equal. Martin Luther King suggested that nonviolent protest would be the best option to fight for his rights. This would be the best option because he thought if there was violence it would only worsen things. How would violence make any situation better? Well it wouldn’t of course. By protesting he thought they would meet their racism and prejudice. King only wanted equality where we would see one another as family, as their own kind. At the end of the article King proclaims, “I have a dream that my four 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.” In front of a million people he shares what he feels and hopes to happen. To treat one another equally and with respect. We shouldn’t hate each other just because of our skin color and our looks, that shouldn’t matter at all.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama brought people together but ran out of time. What I mean by running out of time is that King was assassinated and Obama had people who go against him due to fact he was the first African-American president. However, both still fought for what was right in our country, different yet similar in their own respected ways. In 1955 Martin Luther King and other civil rights activist were arrested for leading a boycott of a Montgomery, Alabama, transportation company which required nonwhites to surrender their seats to whites, and stand or sit at the back of the bus. The following decade, King wrote, spoke and organized nonviolent protests and mass demonstrations to draw attention to racial discrimination. King thought if he did violent protests then things would only get worse, so he made them peaceful, to hopefully have equality for him and others. Martin Luther King brought people together to fight for their rights. In 2007 to now Obama wants what is best for the people like King did. Obama and King were both leaders of great movements, Obama inspired a movement for hope and change that took over the country. King was the leader for the civil rights movement, his power attracted not only thousands of supporters and activists, but concern from the government. King dreams was to one day have all races living together in harmony, Obama was multiracial, and his diverse administration and supporters show he is making good on Kings dreams.
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