Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was an American political activist, the most famous leader of the American civil rights movement. When he was fifteen,he went to university.He fought for political rights for black people in the USA.He demanded that blacks shouldn't be treated as slaves but should have equal rights.

In December 5, 1955, a black woman who didn’t give up her seat in the regions for white people, was sentenced to jail for 2 years, so the civil rights activist Rosa Parkes refused to comply with the policy of apartheid.After this, Black residents launched a boycott of the bus under the leadership of Martin Luther King. The bus boycott has continued a whole year in 1956 , Martin Luther King enjoyed his position and fame because of the leading. In 1956 December, the United States Court declared Racial segregation laws in violation of the Constitution and Montgomerie city bus was also abolished. "We have waited 340 years for our rights!We find it difficult to wait.This 'wait' has almost always meant 'never'."He said.

In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the civil rights movement. He led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world.

He directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream".

“Free at last!

Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

Martin Ruther Kim personally, he not only in his Nobel peace prize, is the youngest winner, and his birthday was established as the official national holiday, the father to from the ranks of celebrities from all walks of life are extremely rare. Most importantly, he also like Gandhi, not only became the representative of his own

conscience, also became the representative of the conscience of mankind. And all this has proved, is precisely the same short stature, ugly Martin Ruther Kim's spirit is powerful.

Among so many impressive people mentioned on classes, Martin left the greatest impression on me. In 1950-60s in the USA, the oppression on colored people are so cruel that black people have to fight for their basic rights. In the profound movements leaded by Martin Ruther Kim, black people get the rights they deserved.That is to say,it is Martin that changed the fates of black people .The courage to fight against the entire world should be ever memorized. And he is one of the only three people who won the Nobel Prize without any dispute and controversy.That’s why Martin Ruther Kim impressed me most.

 

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（马丁路德金的演讲稿）Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" I Have a Dream

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came 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.

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 languished 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.

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

is inextricably bound to our freedom.

We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

We cannot turn back.

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of 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 a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."?

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.