- Martin Luther King Jr.
What I thought of when I first heard about Martin Luther King Jr. was that he really didn’t want to see slavery and racism. Against the African Americans, which white people were doing just to take advantage of the blacks. The quote “I have a dream…”, Martin was trying to progress and tell a story about how he didn’t want there to be any more racism because he didn’t like it. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. It is hard to be a Navajo because a lot of people make fun of you, and also they tell you where is your home in the dirt? I don’t that it is very cool to make fun of anybody. Just because they are a different race from you it doesn’t mean that you have to make fun of them. We are all human, we all come from the same person.
It would be sad for the nation to overlook the power of the moment. This harsh summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. 1963 is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice progresses.
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