"I Have a Dream" ... 57 years after the most eloquent speech in world history by "Martin Luther King"
Friday, August 28, coincided with the 57th anniversary of the landmark speech "I have a dream" delivered by the African American leader and humanitarian political activist, calling for an end to racial discrimination against blacks, Martin Luther King.
The name "I have a dream" was given to Martin Luther King's speech, which he gave at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, during Washington's Freedom March, when he expressed his desire to see a future in which blacks and whites coexist freely, equality and harmoniously.
The day on which this speech was delivered is considered a watershed moment in the history of the civil liberties movement, when King spoke to 250,000 civil rights advocates, and this speech is considered one of the most eloquent speeches in the history of the Western world, and was chosen as the most important American speeches in the twentieth century according to To vote the book of American speeches.
As Representative in the US House of Representatives, John Lewis, who also spoke on this day in his capacity as president of a student organization affiliated with the Civil Liberties Movement, said: “Dr. King had the power and ability to turn the steps of the Lincoln Memorial into a pulpit. And he inspired, taught, and taught King the way he spoke not only of the audience listeners, but he inspired, taught and informed all people in all of America and all future generations that were not yet born. ”
After King finished reading his pre-prepared speech, he improvised his conclusion in which he repeated the phrase "I have a dream," which he may have borrowed from Mahalia Jackson's song, "Tell them about the dream, Martin!" He gave a speech in Detroit that included some passages and portions of that speech in June 1963, when he walked down Woodward Avenue with Walter Reuter and Reverend Clarence Franklin.
King's speech was considered a masterpiece of rhetoric, as its style is similar to that of Baptist sermons, and it contains quotes from respected and respected sources such as the Bible. In his eloquent speech, King referred to many phrases and texts that had been spoken before. At the start of his speech, King alluded to the Gettysburg speech of Abraham Lincoln saying "125 years ago ..." (the time of the speech in which Lincoln said that all human beings are born equal). King also referred to the Bible, referring, for example, to Psalm 5:30 in the second passage of his speech.
"This announcement came as a joyful dawn to end the darkness of their families' night," King said of liberation from slavery, which was included in the declaration of the abolition of slavery in America. There is also a quote from the Bible in the tenth section, King said: “No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will never be satisfied until the truth is fulfilled as water, and righteousness as a perpetual river.”
King also used anagrams, which is the repetition of phrases at the beginning of passages, and used this rhetorical tool throughout his speech. For example, King used alliteration in his first speech when he called on audiences to recognize the moment they were standing in, saying, "Now is the time ...", and he repeated it four times in the sixth paragraph. As for the phrase "I have a dream," King repeated it eight times when he was painting with his imagination a picture of a united America that believed in equality and freedom. He also used alliteration on another occasion when he repeated the phrase "We will never be satisfied, even after another 100 years," the phrase "With this faith," and the phrase "Let freedom knock."
Americans commemorate this anniversary every year, as tens of thousands flock to the capital to participate in the week marking the "March to Washington for Jobs and Freedom" organized by the civil liberties movement 53 years ago, interspersed with important and influential activities, events and speeches.
The event is famous for a number of songs that started with the start of the rally, such as We Shall Over Come, which the participants and artists perform during the event.
Here are important excerpts from the "I Have a Dream" speech:
* I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, former slaves will be able to sit with the sons of former slave masters together at the brotherhood table.
This is our hope. This is the belief that when I return to the South ... with this faith, we will be able to split the mountain of despair with the rock of hope. With this faith we will be able to turn the sounds of discord into a beautiful melody of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, pray together, fight together, go to prison together, and stand for freedom together, knowing that we will be free someday.
* I have a dream that one day my four children will live among a nation in which the individual is not judged by the color of his skin, but by what his personality contains.
Let freedom knock. And when that happens, when we let freedom knock, when we let it ring from every village, every state, and every city, this day will be near when all the children that God created: blacks and whites, Jews and non-Jews, Catholics and Protestants have become able to intertwine. Their hands sang the words of the old negro spiritual song: “Free at the end! Finally free! Thank you, Lord of the Worlds, we are free in the end! ”
* I have a dream that one day this nation will rise and live the true meaning of its national belief that all people are created equal.
* I have a dream that one day every hypothalamus rises, and every mountain and hill will be lowered, and the crooked becomes straight, and the shank is easy. He proclaims the glory of the Lord, and all human beings see him.
* I have a dream that someday in Alabama, with its blind fanatics and its ruler who creeps from his lips the words of command and prohibition; Someday in Alabama, black boys and girls and white boys and girls will intertwine as brothers and sisters. I've got a dream today!
I tell you today, my friends, that even despite the difficulties we face today and which we will face in the coming days, I still have a dream, a dream that has deep roots in the American dream.
It is noteworthy that Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929, and was assassinated on April 4, 1968. He was an African American leader, and a humanitarian political activist, who called for an end to racial discrimination against blacks. In 1964, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and he was the youngest to receive it.
He was assassinated on April 4, 1968, and Martin Luther King was considered one of the most important figures who fought for freedom and human rights.
Luther founded the Southern Christian Leadership, a movement aimed at obtaining equal civil rights for African Americans, and was a victim of his cause.
King rejected violence of all kinds, and he himself was a perfect example for his comrades and many who were involved in the black struggle, through his patience, kindness, wisdom and conservatism, so that the black warlords did not support him, and they began to challenge him in 1965.
Many consider that Luther King’s message has been fulfilled, and that racial segregation ended on the day Barack Obama won the presidential elections on January 20, 2009. Many countries around the world are proud of the arrival of a man of African descent to the seat of government in the United States, especially That some European countries did not reach this degree of freedom yet, despite being one of the first incubators for Africans.