Graduation Speech: The Civil Rights Movement

When I was a kid my teacher always taught me something about life. There is one quote from my teacher that I will never forget. He once said “Orang itu ada harganya” or in English he implied that each one of us hold a value or price tag. There are people who are more valuable than the other because he/she is probably more educated, richer, smarter, and many other positive factors. But there was one night I asked my parent about the value of human, they felt it was a wrong mindset. Since both my parent are Christian, they believed that every single one of us were equal, and there were no such things as someone more valuable than the other. I believe that my parent idea of everyone are equal is correct, but unfortunately, we live in the world

According to The Huffington Post, Martin Luther King inspired a social change in which not only in the US but all over the world. The civil rights movement hoped for an equal right for African-American, even though the slavery ended, people are still believed that the black people were lower than them. The movement was not only helping the African-American, but it was also realizing other race that we are all equal. For example, after the movement people realized that Caucasian and African-American have the same equal rights. Caucasian will also realize that they have the same right with other race such as: Hispanic, Asian, and many more. The idea of restructuring the social class also happened to other race like Hispanic, Asian, and others. They began to realize that they are not lower than Caucasian and African-American. Without the civil right movement, I would not be able to purse my degree in the US because I would not feel welcomed here. I would stay in Indonesia because I knew that people would not giving me a respect since I am Asian. Until now, there are so many campaign to continue the works of MLK like one of the example Black lives matter where many African-American voice out their concern on discrimination and police’s shootings. Even though MLK’s movement was successful, we are still far from equality. But if we look back, we have already made a big step in