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Dr King: I Also Have a Dream

Every year in January we attacked and burned, but he testimony to his noble and their needs will be met.
remember and honour Dr would always respond ideas. I have a dream, that our
Martin Luther King, an with noble and caring mountains, our rivers, our
untiring warrior against the words. I refuse, Dr King, as you seas and our plains will be
refused in your speech in abundant enough to meet the
brutality of racism. A man
who dedicated his entire In January 1957, together Oslo upon receiving the needs of our future genera-
adult life to the fight for the with anti-segregationist Nobel Peace Prize, to be- tions and not only serve as
elimination of racial discri- fighters, Dr King formed lieve that the actual nature reservoirs of exploitation for
mination, in particular, in the Southern Christian of man makes him morally a few people.
the United States. A fight Leadership Conference - incapable of attaining the
having such world-wide one of the most dominant eternal rights to which he is I have a dream, Dr King, to
repercussions that, in any movements in the defense entitled. see your children in
corner of the world where of civil rights. By virtue of Alabama, Arizona or
injustice exists, the name of his own integrity and I also refuse, as you re- Georgia, white, black and
Dr Martin Luther King is leadership, he gave the fused, to accept the point of aborigines, join hands as
evoked. civil rights movement a view that man is tragically brothers and sisters, and that
more powerful and trapped by the darkness of the black, "mestizos",
The son and grandson of confident character. injustice and war and that aborigines and white
pastors in Atlanta, Georgia, the radiant dawn of peace children of our Latin
Dr King combined his It was far from anyone's and brotherhood can never American continent also
heritage and Christian mind that six days after become a reality. join hands together to
fervor with a passionate receiving the Nobel Peace receive those from the North
desire to find racial Prize, Dr King would be I say today, on your day, as brothers and not as
harmony. jailed in his own country that, despite the difficulties oppressors.
accused of being a commu- we face day in and day out,
Emphatic in his message, nist and social agitator. Dr King, I also have a I also have a dream, Dr
Dr King fostered the dream - a Latin American King: Peace, Justice and
principles of Gandhi by Paradoxically, despite his dream, inspired by the Understanding for Latin
organizing and directing total dedication to non- noble ideas of our America and all the peoples
peace marches and violence and pacifism, Dr Liberators. of the Third World.
demonstrations as part of King was assassinated in
by Homero Hernández
his nonviolent resistance to Memphis, Tennessee, on 4 I have a dream, that the Sanchez, Ambassador,
racial segregation. April 1968 by a fanatic, poor, the forgotten and Permanent Mission of the
James Earl Ray. Upon his those on the fringes of
Dominican Republic to the
Dr King was sent to prison death, Dr King leaves us a society who are unjustly United Nations Office and
for his beliefs many times, legacy of examples in the forgotten - from South of other International
his family and friends were fight against injustice. His the Rio Grande to the limits Organizations in Geneva
taunted, his house was even speech I Have a Dream is of Patagonia - will be heard

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