I Have a Dream

I Have a Dream (English " I have a dream " ) is the title of a famous speech by Martin Luther King, he occasion of the March on Washington for work and freedom, in which more than 250,000 people participated, August 28, 1963 in Washington, DC front of the Lincoln Memorial held.

I Have a Dream was one of the most important speeches during the march of the civil rights movement to Washington for jobs, freedom and equality, especially for the African American population of the United States. This march was initiated by six human rights organizations, the The Big Six were called. Among them was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC ), whose leader Martin Luther King was. King used his speech as a negative homage to the ruptured or for some - such as the African American population of the U.S. - unattainable American Dream in order to draw attention to the grievances of the situation of the black population.

The speech is considered one of the masterpieces of rhetoric. King used it as allusions excerpts from the Bible, the Declaration of Independence of the United States, the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration on the emancipation of slaves ( 1862/63 and the Gettysburg note, both of President Lincoln. Through the use of anaphora and the carried forward way affects the speech also as a typical Methodist sermon.

He was consistent with his advisors the " I Have a Dream " part omit ( he had previously already used in many other speeches); he was not in the manuscript. Mahalia Jackson, who stood during the speech in Kings nearby, he twice called to tell ' em about the dream, Martin " (about: «! Tell that to the dream "); then to King broke away from his manuscript and improvised the "! I Have a Dream "part and the subsequent final part of the speech (the anaphora " let freedom ring "is ).

Excerpt from a speech

" I have a dream did one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold thesis truths to be self-evident: . Did all men are created equal ' I have a dream did one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I did have a dream one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice and sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be Transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream my four little children did will one day live in a nation where theywill not Be Judged by the color of Their skin but by the content of Their character. I have a dream today! "

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Memorial for Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King shortly after his speech