A man with a dream

“I say to you today, my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a deep dream, rooted in the American Dream.”

Martin Luther King was an extraordinary man. He believed in freedom for his people and equality for every man and woman in this world, and he fought for it.

The 20th century was a hard era for black people, they were segregated and their rights weren’t respected. Everything was unfair, so unfair.

But this man wanted a change. He wanted to live in a country without racism, without discrimination, without having to give their sit to a white person in a bus, without kids going to different schools, depending of their skin color, without being looked down on just because your genes. We are humans! No matter if you’re White or black, we are all child of God.

He organized pacific ways to protest, and even when there were people who thought that violence was necessary to make a change,  in times where killing and fighting were daily bread, he kept strong in his words and kept on fighting for his people in a peaceful way. He gained many followers and respect of  peo

He gave a beautiful speech called “I have a dream” in where he tried to give hope to continue this belief of freedom.

If we think about the results of the Civil Rights Movement, we can see that we all were benefited because of this fight, not only because it was a movement against racism, but it was also  a movement about tolerance and equality, because we all are different but society is more open minded and those barriers between us don’t matter that much as they did about seventy years ago. 

It was a good change and we all have to say thanks to this man with a wonderful dream,  full of faith and hope, and he never gave up, he fought until his last day of life and eventhough he’s not with us anymore, he’s one of the most important and biggest overcoming models of all the time.

Here we have a song dedicated to Martin Luther King. "Happy Birthday" by Stevie Wonder, was written as part of the campaign to have the birthday of Martin Luther King become a national holiday. Stevie Wonder's words are about why a man who fought so hard for a good reason doesn't have a day that would be set aside for his recognition (established as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986)

“Free at last, free at last.

Thank God Almighty,

I’m free at last.”