I Ve Been To The Mountain Top

The Civil Rights movement in America was one of the biggest social issues this country has had to face. It was about the rights of African-Americans, who were being discriminated against, prejudiced against, and experiencing racist violence against them for no reason, other than they were black. Many leaders came up during this movement to help the cause of civil rights, and many people became prominent figures, such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Angela Davis. Such figures had a lot of power over the public, and designed speeches, marches, riots, etc., for the movement. While many speeches were written and performed, Martin Luther King Jr., considered one of the most influential people of the Civil Rights Movement, made a speech

While many people wrote and talked about being unified during times like the ones in the 1950-1960s, the way Martin Luther King wrote about it was like no other figure. Some figures only promoted unity through violence and through hate, while Martin Luther King promoted unity through nonviolence and peace. Beginning on page 2, paragraph 15, and continuing throughout the speech, Martin Luther King Jr. talks about nonviolence, stating, “We aren’t engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men.” He also then continued to say one of his core beliefs, which is “We are saying that we are God’s children. And that we are God’s children, we don’t have to live like we are forced to live.” In that belief, he conveys that because we are all God’s children, there should be no hatred or violence against one another, because we were made to be unified. On page 3, through paragraphs 18-20, Martin Luther King then talks about his experiences with his marches, which were both peaceful and nonviolent, and unified people against the injustices that were being faced. In paragraph 19, King writes, “We aren’t going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolence movement in disarming police forces.” Bull Connor, a Dixiecrat from Alabama, would turn on fire hoses to stop them, but like Martin Luther King wrote on paragraph __, “...there was a certain kind of fire that no water could put out,” referencing the fire in the heart of the people who were fighting for civil rights. He continues talking about unity on page 4, where in paragraph (30 or 31), he states, “...we’ve got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point in Memphis. We’ve got to see it through. And when we have