I Have A Dream Speech and Nat Turners Confession

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4 December , 2008 I Have a dream Speech and Nat Turner Confessions The Martin Luther King Jr . Dream Speech

In no other place were the overall dreams of African Americans better stated than in the speech delivered by Martin Luther Jr . on August 28 1963 . Martin Luther aptly stated what had been the silent hope of many African Americans who had suffered segregation , slavery and unfair treatment from their Caucasian masters . Martin Luther however , spoke not from a victim standpoint , but from the standpoint

of a person who knew that what America was witnessing that day was just a pointer to better things to come

His speech was full of hope , yet he agreed that a hundred years after the signing of the emancipation proclamation , the black people were not yet free , they were still poor in a country that glowed in prosperity and they were not yet accepted as part of the greater American society This however , did not deter him from being hopeful . He still believed that there was hope in the promissory note depicted by the words of the American constitution as well as the Declaration of Independence that the right to life , liberty and happiness would be available to everyone regardless of their skin color

Though he knew that the black people had been denied many things , he refused to believe that the situation would be like that forever . He chose dialogue over strife as evidenced by his speech and though many...