Although we live in the wealthiest nation in the world, we must remember that not everyone is prospering. There are still many people who find it difficult to make ends meet. It appears that too many of our young people have forgotten how to dream. They have forgotten what Martin Luther King taught us, when he started his journey towards equality with peace in his heart and the dream of equality in his eyes. Martin Luther King, Jr. youth was spent in our country’s Deep South, then run by Jim Crow. It was an environment even more dangerous than the one faced today. A young Martin managed to find a dream, one that he pieced together from his readings in the Bible, and literature. Those books did not just help educate him, but they also allowed him to work through …show more content…
Martin Luther King was a dreamer. His dreams were a tool through which he was able to lift his mind beyond the reality of his segregated society, and into a realm where it was possible that white and black, red and brown, and all others live and work alongside each other and prosper. But Martin Luther King, Jr. was not just an idle daydreamer. He shared his visions through speeches that motivated others to join in his nonviolent effort to lift themselves from poverty and isolation by creating a new America where equal justice and institutions were facts of life. In the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “We hold these truths be self evident, that all Men are Created Equal.” At that time and for centuries to come, African-Americans were historically, culturally, and prospectively excluded from inclusion in that declaration. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech was a clarion call to each citizen of this great nation that we still hear today. His request was simply and eloquently conveyed – he asked America to allow of its citizens to live out the words written in its Declaration of Independence and to have a place in this nation’s Bill of