Martin Luther King Jr.'... When Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, the fire behind American Civil Rights movement was just beginning to be lit. ... Martin Luther King Jr.'... King's emotion-filled testimony of persecution, yet with a positive outlook for future change led people to realize that freedom and liberty for all was not an earned privilege, but a necessity. ... King and Swift both addressed some sort of moral blindness or social injustice, and King, at least, inspired change in his audience. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In order to decipher what it means to be an American you have to look at the past and what has brought this freedom upon us. ... Another example of demonstrating the freedom we now possess that allows us to truly call ourselves Americans was Martin Luther King Jr. ... Thomas Jefferson once said, "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. ... Printed in the Pledge of Allegiance it says indivisible with liberty and justice for all. That's what the founding fathers before us foresaw when they won the battle...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Emancipation Proclamation was the first political movement to equality; in 1863 it proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten rebelling states. Ward believes "the Emancipation Proclamation stands as a monumental landmark in the advancement of liberty1" In contrast US history writes, "the search for equal rights was far from over with the passage of the 14th Amendment2" as the Supreme Court did nothing to ensure that the 14th Amendment, which stated that no "State [should] deprive any person of life, liberty, or property,3" was made a meaningful reality. ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It meant rewarding merit over bloodline and it meant fighting for liberty and freedom. ... In Hall's speech " A Charge Delivered to The Brethren," he addresses his masons as grand master and explains to his brothers that black people fought shoulder to shoulder for freedom and equality in the American Revolution, so for equality not to be given to black men was total hypocrisy. ... By doing so they orchestrated the "Freedom Now Rally" of 1964. ...

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• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate