What Is America's Gift To My Generation

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“Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we’re free at last,” are the first words I think of when I think about America’s gift to my generation. Martin Luther King, Jr., a civil rights activist, is one of many that represent America’s gift to my generation. Freedom, defined in the dictionary as the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint, is the basic principle behind what this country was founded on. It is the idea that all men are created equal and are born with the same fundamental rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Ironically, however, since the existence of this great nation has begun, freedom is something that, in essence, has never been “free,” as so many have

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