I Have A Dream Speech Outline

Ever since the first colonists stepped onto the New World, forming Jamestown community, the land that eventually would become America was a religious haven and the future of hope for the pilgrims who left England. A hundred years later, the pilgrims fought against the British in a quest for independence. A hundred years later, America and its people “engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure” ( [MLA citation] ). A hundred years later, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., emphasized the need for “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’” in his famous speech, I Have A Dream

King’s perspective in his journey with African Americans fighting for the Civil Rights in the mid-20th century. On page 48, he wrote that “love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend” (Chapter 5, Page 48). This was exemplified in President Lincoln’s selection of Edwin Stanton as the Secretary of War during the Civil War. The president gave a direct response that Mr. Stanton was “the best man for the job” (Chapter 5, Pages 48 – 49). America during the mid-20th century still had to confront the issue of segregation. There was virtually no existence of love between whites and blacks. Despite the abolishment of slavery, the racial tension increased nonstop. Knowing that segregation could not be prolonged just like slavery, Dr. King called everyone to love one another and even African-Americans need to love the whites who treated them poorly. He pointed out that “love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world” (Chapter 5, Page 44). Respectively, Dr. King is saying that love is a therapy for the soul and mind, the answer to segregation and the answer for the new America. With love, some sort of good will come out as the result. Just like President Lincoln was able to choose an opponent, the blacks and whites needed to learn how to love. Dr. King reiterated that love is the key to reconciliation throughout the