I Have a Dream

I Have a Dream

‘I have a dream’ are the famous words of Martin Luther King Jr. Marshall Frady depicted Marting Luther’s life with outstanding detail in his biography, Martin Luther King, JR. Martin Luther King had a dream to expel segregation between white and coloured people and craved equality for all. He faced great hardships and affliction throughout his entire life but overcame them through tolerance, understanding, and passion. Martin Luther King inspired the world to show resilience in the face of adversity so the future may hold a greater good. Martin Luther faced many hardships and showed resilience in the face of his oppressors, showed resilience as he fought his emotions and stayed peaceful rather than become violent, and showed resilience by being true to himself and true to what he stood for; continuing his journey for the greater good.

People have been taught at a young age to be obedient to the people that give them the rules. They are taught to follow those rules, and if they disobey those rules they will be punished. Martin Luther disagreed with this to a certain degree and chose to show resilience in the face of his oppressors and saying there is a certain point in which one has to disobey to do good instead of evil. Martin Luther wrote a letter while in Birmingham Jail in which he discussed the injustice imposed on coloured people, “‘Wait! It rings in the ear of every Negro...justice too long delayed is justice denied’” (Frady, 110). This ‘wait’ has almost always meant never for coloured people seeking a fair court trial. In Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter, Martin Luther discussed the injustice that was being done to colored people. Although he would be punished with attempted assassinations and bombs thrown at his house, Martin Luther was right to oppose his oppressors, the dominant white community, and was correct in saying that there is a certain point that people need to disobey to do good instead of evil. This is how he achieved the greater good, equality.

Nonviolent protests were a necessity in Martin Luther King’s journey for civil rights. The beginning of MLK’s civil rights movement started after Rosa Parks was convicted for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, violating bus transport rules. Martin Luther lead a boycott “for 381 days, thousands of blacks walked to work, some as many as 12 miles a day, rather than continue to submit to segregated public transportation”