Martin Luther King Speech Analysis

The Kings Speech or more famously known as the “I Have a Dream” speech, goes down in history as one of the greatest expressions of speech not only for the African American community but, for the world at that time. In short terms, in the fight for the disbandment of racial discrimination worldwide, the king’s speech was used to shed a light at the end of a dark, long tunnel throughout American society. Racial discrimination has had a black eye on the forefront of American culture but with Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech, it helped heal the wound of a century of punishment in the African American community. Dr. Martin Luther king’s Speech began with the explanation of the signing of the explanation of the Emancipation Proclamation.

American made life and liberty especially difficult for one certain race. That seems asinine to say in American culture today as we, as Americans have learned from our past errors and seen the negative in our ways. We, as people corrected a major defect, a flaw so to say in the life of a American but, back in that time, not even seventy years ago, We, as people were taught a different view of image for African Americans. The pursuit of happiness was non-existent for some African Americans. Racism ate the fabric of the goal for them. Crippling the right to enjoy freedoms that other races seemed to enjoy. The American culture need to hear the thoughts and expressions of the Kings Speech to take a look in the eyes of the African American people. King quoted “It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment”. The urgency was the fact Americans still looked down upon a race that had every god given right to be in the country than any other citizen born. It was time for a

Change for the culture of the past and a new sense of purpose for the generations to come. Dr King quoted “I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.” Dr. King gave this part of his sermon to express the insanity of repression would soon be a distant thought for generations to come. Change was on the horizon for America but change cannot be accomplished without a change of heart, the hearts and minds of the doing the repression and racism toward others. The walk to that mindset cannot be a taken