I Have a Dream

Daniel Holley, Maria Escalante &

Michelle Brown

Dr. Martin Luther King Jrs speech I

Have a Dream served as a major
turning point in the Civil Rights
movements and is still relevant
today.

Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-

evident, that all men are created

equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Emancipation Proclamation
"That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863,
all persons held as
slaves within any State or designated part of
a State the people
whereof shall then be in rebellion against
the United States shall
be then, thenceforward, and forever free;
and the executive
government of the United States, including

Ethos:
We must forever conduct our struggle
on the high plane of dignity and
discipline. We must not allow our
creative protest to degenerate into
physical violence. Again and again, we
must rise to the majestic heights of
meeting physical force with soul force.

Ethos (cont.)
Must not lead us to a distrust of all
white people, for many of our white
brothers, as evidenced by their
presence here today, have come to
realize that their destiny is tied up with
our destiny. And they have come to
realize that their freedom is
inextricably bound to our freedom.

Pathos
When will you be satisfied? We can never be satisfied
as long as the Negro is the victim o the unspeakable
horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as
long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel,
cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and
the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long
as the negros basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to
a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our
children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of
their dignity by signs stating : For Whites Only.

Logos
Five score years ago, a great American, in
whose symbolic shadow we stand today,
signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This
momentous decree cam as a great beacon
light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who
had been seared in the flames of withering
injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to
end the long night of their captivity.

Kairos
But

one hundred years later, the

Negro still is not free.
Nineteen sixty-three is not an end,
but a beginning.

Relevance
We have come a long way since 1963, but Dr. Kings
Dream has not fully realized yet. There are still ethnical
issues of discrimination and injustice still going on in the
world today. For example:
On August 5, 2012 shooter guns down seven people in
the Sikh Temple in Milwaukee, Wisconsin after mistaking
them for Muslims.
The Eric Garner slaying on July 17, 2014 in Staten
Island.
Officer Ramos and Liu were gunned down assassination
style to avenge Eric Garner and Michael Brown on

Why is it important?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jrs Speech and march in
Washington continues to inspire peaceful protests to this
day. For example:
The Immigrant Rights March on October 12, 1996
The Wisconsin Teacher Strike in 2011
The Anti-proposition 8 protest on November 15, 2008

How effective was this speech?

As a result of Martin Luther King Jrs speech we now
have:
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Inter-Racial Marriage since 1967
Equal Rights Amendments in 1971

Conclusion
Since the 1960s, many laws have been
passed to guarantee civil rights to All
Americans not just Black and White, but
Hispanic, Asian, Men, Women, Disabled,
and the Elderly. Many of these groups
started civil rights campaigns.

References
Congress. (1776). Declaration of Independence.
Retrieved from
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_tr
anscript.html
Lincoln, A. (1862). Emancipation Proclamation.
Retrieved from http://
www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1549t.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejmuBojLidE