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Martin Luther King

 

            He voiced his beliefs On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Junior stepped up to the podium in Washington D. C. to deliver one of the most famous and influential speeches of our time. The crowd of over 200,000 listened to his I Have a Dream speech, in which King attempted to convince people to live together in peace and understanding of one another. This was one of his many successful non-violent demonstrations. .
             where he delivered his most famous speech, I Have a Dream. Some of the words of this speech follow.When we allow freedom's ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day, when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands, and sing in the words of the old Negro Spiritual: Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty, we are free at last! .
             King's ability to show how he cared for his fellow man was evident in the way he was able to get deeply into the hearts of people through his famous speeches. .
             He believed that one day justice will prevail for blacks as is seen in most famous speech of all time, the speech, " I Have a Dream": "I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice." King wanted to see justice prevail.
             of non-violent resistance in his "I have a dream", speech which has become, for good reason, one of the worlds most memorable speeches of our time. He said: .
             The true meaning of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convince, but how he stands at times of controversy and challenge. We must not allow our creative protests to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physic.
             al force with soul force. The dynamics of this moral value of non-violence are very evident in the make up of Martin Luther King Jr.


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