“I say to you today, my friends, 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.
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….
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
The speech of Martin Luther,"I have a dream" is my favourite speech because the idea of this speech has been, in part, realized with Barack Obama and it's a text still topical.
RépondreSupprimerIn my opinion this speech is the most convincing because it is well and clearly write with concrets examples.
This speech has changed the world, the points of view and the opinions of people. This text contains an idea who lives today, the goal to be equal between blacks and whites, that's why it's my favourite speech, I like his form and his idea.
In my opinion, it's the best speech.
RépondreSupprimerIt is one of the most famous speeches in the story of humanity, the one that everybody knows the main sentence "I have a dream" and this shows the effect that this speech had and have on the american population and the world population. The repetition of this sentence is very important to remember the speech.
Quentin, I agree with you on the fact that this subject is still relevant but I don't think that Barack Obama participated in the writting of this speech at the age of 2.
To my mind, this speech is the best I have ever heard/read.
RépondreSupprimerIn fact, the enumeration of firstly "I have a dream" and then "Let freedom ring" permits to follow and understand the main ideas. Concrete examples help too (I agree with you, Quentin M.).
Then, the orator speaks many times with the audience ("my friends") on an equal footing ("all men are created equal") lauding strong values (freedom, equality...).
Moreover, a speech as well constructed as this one, and tell by such a good orator as M. Luther King, can only be a classic speech.
To sum up, I agree with you Quentin and Nicolas to say that it's the more persuasive speech of these few speeches.
I really liked that speech because MLK is one of the most charismatic orators of all time. He knows how to touch the people especially with the anaphora of "I have a dream" and "Let Freedom ring".
RépondreSupprimerBesides the subject is a very important cause : segregation, in which MLK was one of the most influential characters.In the speech, we remember the man and the idea. Thus the idea still lives today and people fight in the name of it, even if MLK is dead.
I agree with Quentin and Théo on the fact that it is still a topical subject and also because it is a classic speech.
According to me, this speech is the best of all the speech that we have seen in class. First, we can note that, as Théo said, the repetition help us to understand the ideas, but I also think that they insist on the fact that the dream of MLK can be realised. Moreover, at the beginning of the speech, when MLK say "I say to you today, my friends", it shows that he talks to each of us and he put us on his side, we immediatly feel concerned by the problems he is talking about.
RépondreSupprimerFinally, I just want to add that the aim of this speech is "fighting for equality and freedom", and nowadays, lots of people are fighting for that in many countries, so, as Quentin said, this is a current fight. I think that this speech will always be topical.
According to me, 'I have a dream' is a text that will be engraved in people's memory for ever, as Nicolas said : "It is one of the most famous speeches in the story of humanity". Martin Luther King is using anaphoras which sounds like a chorus that's why it makes this speech pleasant to hear and to read.
RépondreSupprimerAs he's saying "I say to YOU taoday, my FRIENDS" or "WE are free at last" we feel concerned by what he's talking about, all the more so as it's Us who can make this change (stop slavery), who can put blacks and whites on equal footing.
This idea is still true nowadays, there's still people fighting for this idea, it shows how important was this idea and how convincing he was when he said that speech.
So to my opinion (and it seems to be the same as classmates' one), it's the best speech among the four others.
I agree with Laurent: today, when we hear "I have a dream", we can immediately think to Martin Luther King.
RépondreSupprimerHe adresses to us and repeat "I have a dream". If we want to make humanity a better world, we have to accept each other and respect everybody.
This speech is easy to understand, and there is no aggressive vocabulary: even if a speech can look convincing when it shows anger (Lewis Prothero's for example), we can also feel concerned by a speech full of humanity and equality.
I think that this speech is the best one.
RépondreSupprimerFirst of all, the fact that we all know Martin Luther King and his struggle for the equality is a sign that his speech, especially "I have a dram", marked a lot of people thanks to all the persuasions skills he used and thanks to the charisma of this great man.
Then, like Marie-Claude and Laurent said, MLK arrived to integrate persons, who was listenning to him, in his speechs using "we" to make people understand that it concerns everyone. And when he says "I have a dream" MLK does'nt speak about his own dream but about the dream of everybody, this is how he arrives to capture the attention of his public. MLK knew that everybody dreamt of equality and he used it in order to make it real.
Everybody knows Martin Luther King's speech « I have a dream », and this is not a coincidence: it is so famous because it is the best speech ever, for the following reasons. First of all, the author Martin Luther King, was famous in his time, for his divers actions against segregation in the USA, as the Montgomery bus boycott. It made his speech more realistic and convincing, because people knew that he was involved in a struggle against racism, and that his speech wasn't only words. However, this is not the struggle against segregation, which made him famous. We wouldn't have known MLK without his speech: as Laurent said, Luther King uses anaphoras that stay engraved into the mind, and other persuasion skills that have been mentioned many times, and that I will not repeat. I think like Laurent, Marie-Claude and Paola that the fact that MLK uses personal pronouns is very important for people to feel concerned in what MLK says. After all, in his speech, Martin Luther King recognizes the real problems of his country, and denounces it, and he is not afraid to target some particular states, like Mississippi or Georgia: Martin Luther King is sure of himself and that's what makes his charisma.
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