“I have a dream.” Four words, that have changed our world drastically. Four words, spoken by a man, who has experienced racial discrimination in a time, where the United States were dominated by racist white men, and the entire society was built on a set of laws segregating white and colored people from each other. He, Martin Luther King Jr., has become a symbol of equality and justice in the entire world and has through his 39 years long life achieved more than he would have ever dreamt about when he started as an activist as the leader of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955. The four words, “I have a dream,” are the title of Martin Luther King’s speech at the Lincoln Memorial in august 1963, which is the perhaps most famous speech in history. That single speech has influenced the racial state of affairs in the United States dramatically and has inspired many people across the entire world – for instance, Nelson Mandela – to break with racial discrimination.
Even though it has been more than 50 years since Martin Luther King’s great speech, we are still faced with many of the same problems as back then. Innocent black people are still being killed because of the color of their skin. In Martin Luther King’s time, it was among others the Ku Klux Klan that chased and killed African-Americans, but in some ways, the condition is even worse today. Nowadays young black men are treated unacceptably poor, and in some occasions killed, by white policemen, and even though it doesn’t seem like, the situation is as bad, as it was in the 20th century, racism is still alive and well.
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