First of all let me express my enormous respect and sincere admiration to the person who managed to become the spokesman for civil rights movements, who resisted racial injustice, who championed women’s rights and protested the Vietnam War.
I would like to begin with what stroke me most. It is the feeling of surprise and shock when I became aware of the injustice that Negroes experienced in the past. It was weird that the Afro-Americans who lived on the territory of the United States of America did not enjoy equal rights and freedoms with white people. It is not fair that people had to suffer from the racial prejudices and different biased opinions. Every citizen of the great country America has to be protected with the Articles and Amendments of the Constitution of the United States of America. As this document played a significant role in the establishment of democracy, considerable part and the authors’ contribution into the struggle of the people for independence of America and the establishment of democracy. All the people of America were looking forwards to the day when all will become equal irrespective of the social status, color of skin, religion, background or nobility. Martin Luther King was absolutely right while calling the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence ‘a promissory note’, as it is a document, containing a signed promise to do something. In our situation the document was not valid until present days when the United States of America became a powerful state that is the standard of democracy, the basic principles of which are stated in the Constitution. Therefore other states that want to establish democracy should follow the example of the American people of their love of principles of freedom, democracy and independence. Whereas every newborn child of America can enjoy the constitutional rights and liberties from the first moment of his/her life, most states of the world do not have such an opportunity, do not enjoy either constitutional or other rights in their country. We and the successive generations have to keep in our hearts the basic principles of freedom and democracy, because the time proved them to be the only right opinion.
The speech of Mr. King made me think over our relationships with people that do not look like us, speak another language; people that wake up when we go to bed as they live on the other side of the globe, people that have other customs and traditions. We can enumerate a great number of diversities that can arise between people of different countries, cultures, languages, religions, but I want to name something that is in common: a burning desire to enjoy rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In his speech Martin Luther King tells about his dream of happy nation, of brotherhood between different people.
You can disagree with my conclusion but I believe that every person has to dream of a better life, and only those who do everything possible to achieve their goals will live better. One can pray to God about wealth and fortune till kingdom come but he must at least buy a bulletin for God to be able to help him, as nothing seek, nothing find. If we cannot change the past, we can try to change the future. We can avoid such mistakes as being prejudiced towards people and their lifestyle, being unaware of people’s problems. If we do not know about the problem it does not mean that the problem does not exist. Martin Luther King’s achievements can serve as an example to successive generations. Let us not repeat the mistakes of prejudiced people.