Nicolas Calderon
“I have a dream” by Martin Luther King Response
This speech marked an entire era in the very important subject of discrimination and in
some cases even oppression of civil rights against the African American community. The day
that Martin Luther King Jr gave that speech he wasn’t just speaking to his followers or even
African Americans; he was speaking to every person in the United States.
He first starts comparing the deeds of “Abraham Lincoln” and the “emancipation
proclamation”, which was the first act that helped slaves gain freedom, to the conflict of
segregation that they were facing during that time. Eventually, he starts to talk about how “the
founding fathers” of America wrote in the Declaration of Independence how every “American”
had “unalienable rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness” and that African Americans
shouldn’t be excluded from this.
After that, He starts saying that this pressing matter should be dealt with and America
would not be in peace until the “Negro” society get equitable freedom and justice, but what I find
very admirable is that even after the things that have happened to them and all what they been
maybe of human history.