"I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream." A quote from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s very famous speech, “I have a Dream.” This speech was given on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.On those steps the African American civil rights movement reached a high point. Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke to about 250,000 people attending the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The demonstrators–black and white, poor and rich–came together in the nation’s capital to demand voting rights and equal opportunity for African Americans and to appeal for an end to racial segregation and discrimination.
Mr. King was fighting for something that at the time seemed very unlikely. On that day King was the last speaker. With the statue of Abraham Lincoln–the Great Emancipator–towering behind him, he used the
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took a stand for something he believed in, and his accomplishments inspire me to take action when I see a problem. Volunteering is something that I love to do. I teach a religious education class at my church on Sundays, I help with dance classes at my studio, and over the summer I worked hand-in-hand with Ms. Diana Elizabeth Gallego at the DISD Summer Dance Intensive. My favorite part of volunteering is seeing the immediate result. I get to see kids’ eyes light up when they finally have done a step correctly and when they have found a solution to a problem. Though his speech, King has also taught me to be more grateful for what is around me and what privileges I have been given, because there is someone somewhere that is whishing that they were in my spot right now. When I am struggling with personal or dance life I find it humbling to think back to 1963 when African Americans are unjustly mistreated and politically handicapped. With Martin Luther King, Jr. still in mind I always try to stay positive in spite of inconveniences and misfortunes at the