Martin Luther King Day Assignment

Monday was Martin Luther King Day and we were given an assignment to read five of his speeches, but then pick one and write about it in this blog. I read: I Have A Dream, Where Do We Go From Here, Beyond Vietnam, Loving Your Enemies, and lastly King’s acceptance when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in 1964. I have decided to blog about his acceptance speech because I did not even know that he won the Nobel Prize. Martin Luther King was one of the most unselfish men in all of American history. Even when he was awarded one of the most sought after awards in the world he did not take any of it for himself. He accepted the Prize on behalf of his African American brothers and sisters struggling with the everyday problems of racism and segregation. King does not even forget for a moment that there are atrocities taking place even during his speech. He realizes just because he won The Nobel Prize does not mean it was going to change over night of what is going on in the street. King was smart to realize that he would get no other greater forum to speak of his movement than the place where the Nobel Peace Prize was held. There were world leaders and extremely important people that could help in the audience that night and Martin knew this would be the place to state the facts of the Civil Right Movement. Obviously Martin Luther King died before long before his time, but the impact he left on the Civil Rights Movement was immeasurable. Dr. King deserves his own day and deserved that award and he also deserves much more than he got credit for. The least we could do is recognize what he did for this country to forward thinking and just imagine what the world would have been like if he did step up and speak the truth.