Our Dream
...several African American organizations in the south of the U.S. Dr. King ceaselessly traveled through and made lectures that propagandized the utilization of fighting for one’s rights by using method of nonviolence in the U.S. Meanwhile, he also visited India and investigated Gandhi’s ideas and strategies of nonviolence due to his identifying with Gandhi’s method of peaceful resistance to strive for the civil rights. As a pivotal figure in the Civil Rights Movement, he organized and leaded a series of peaceful demonstrations and nonviolence petitions that went up against segregation and racialism between 50’s and 60’s. The social status of African-Americans was improved distinctly under his unremitting struggle, which includes the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed Alabama bus segregation laws in late 1956. August 28, 1963, 250 thousands people, who responded to Dr. King’s summoning, paraded on Washington D.C. in order to promote black objectives. Dr. King had this famous speech, “I have a Dream”, in the front of Lincoln Memorial: I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaves owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heart of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little 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. I HAVE A DREAM TODAY! I have a dream that one day down in Alabama—with its vicious racists, with its Governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification—one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I HAVE A DREAM TODAY! I have a dream today that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low. The rough places will be plain and the crooked places will be made straight, “and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.” In the year after Dr. King declared this speech, the U.S. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964. He also was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize of that year. The approval of the Civil Rights Act revealed an active result of Dr. King’s secular leadership on Civil Rights Movement and the Nobel Peace Prize affirmed his persevering utilization of Gandhian methods of nonviolent protest to resist the inequity of laws and regime. Nevertheless, the misfortune eventually befell him. April 4, 1968, Dr. King was assassinated as he stood on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. A white segregationist, James Earl Ray, was later convicted of the crime. After Dr. King’s death, outbreak of riot occurred over more than a hundred cities in the U.S. Although his enemies had destroy Dr. King corporeally by their contemptible manner and who was the prime criminal killed Dr. King might be an enigma that would never be solved, his rebellious spirits would be stay with us forever. Dr. King has gone, but his wonderful dream and unbendable figure memorably leaved in everyone’s heart. Dr. King has gone, but he received the esteem from the people all over the world. His spirit has already surpassed the race and national boundaries and inspirited people fight for justice, equality and peace. He hasn’t died, but he is always living in people’s heart for both of them either love him or hate him. Everyone has a dream, but one has to struggle for one’s dream to make it come true no matter it is grand or puny. Dr. King is such a warrior who was willing to sacrifice himself to his great dream. Dr. King’s dream clearly indicated that the equality and the liberty, which were proclaimed by the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation, didn’t completely be achieved and racialism is the sticking point of all these problems. Though the racial problems today are essentially different from the one back to 60s in the U.S., it is still a chronic illness of American society. Racialism is a specific result of evolution of the history and the bottom of the American slavery. Undoubtedly, such slavery and the spirit of liberty and equality of the U.S. were as if oil and vinegar so that the Civil War happened. At the same time, racialism, as an ideology, permeated through the polity and culture of the U.S. Thus, in despite of the end of the Civil War and the ...