Martin Luther King
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On August 28,1963 the civil rights movement skyrocketed with a speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during a mass rally of the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr starts his speech by saying that, he must say to his people that they must not feel guilty of the wrongful deeds resulting from gaining liberation. He asks his people not to wonder in to a reservoir filled with hatred and injustice as the oppressors have; rather he tells his people that they must conduct their struggle for freedom in a dignified manner. Martin Luther King Jr’s speech is filled with hope, he urges his followers for freedom not to meet physical force with physical force, but rather confront the physical force with soul force which refers to hope. Martin Luther King Jr says that the Coloured can never be satisfied as long as they are the victims of police brutality and segregation of Coloured people exists in society. Martin Luther King Jr also states that Coloured people can never be satisfied nor rest easily as long as they are not represented in congress. King Jr states that he has a dream that one day all men will be treated equal, that justice for Coloured people will tempest in to the United States of America and that the next generation of children will be able to unite together without being oppressed or judged by one another. Mr. King states that one day he has a dream that the state of Mississipi which is filled with hatred and injustice will be altered in to a wide open space of freedom for Coloured people. Martin Luther King Jr says that he has a hope that one day his children will be judged according to their character rather then their skin colour, he calls for a unification