Martin Luther King Jr.

3rd year students

We also talked about Martin Luther King Jr. We read about his life and we discovered he was an activist of the African American Civil Rights Movement like Rosa Parks, in fact they knew each other and were friends. He won the Nobel peace Prize in 1964 and he was, unfortunately, assassinated in 1968.

Martin Luther King Jr. Biography - Biography.com

We said he is still famous, among other things, thanks to his speech "I have a dream".
When he gave this speech he was in front of Abraham Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC in 1963.

This is Abraham Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC and Martin Luther King was on the steps when he gave his speech.



The statue of Abraham Lincoln is inside
the Memorial




"... I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day ..." 

(28th August 1963 - Washington DC).