I definitely feel that TJ found the two major points to this speech, but I liked what Kayla contributed as well. It was hard for me to decide what to add, because I felt it was already said, and how many major points can there really be?
Once I got to thinking, I felt that Martin Luther King Jr. was trying to say that not only do they have the conatituional right to protest, but that they will protest, and they plan to protest peacefully. I also felt he was trying to point out the importance of the legal protesting and finding friendship between races.
The entire time reading the speech, I thought about how much Martin Luther King was trying to do all of this protesting peacefully. As TJ quoted, "There will be no crosses burned at any bus stops in Montgomery. There will be no white persons pulled out of their homes and taken out on some distant road and lynched for not cooperating. There will be nobody among us who will stand up and defy the constitution of this nation.” Reading that reminded me of another civil rights activist who was not so peaceful: Malcolm X. Malcolm X thought that violence was the answer, and that the only way to get what you want was to scare out the enemy. Martin Luther King felt that it was not about sides. What he wanted was for everyone to get along. That is what I felt was the hidden message: for everyone to get along. It was not about which side was going to be in power like how Malcolm X thought of it.
I would also like to quote Martin Luther King when he said, “We are not afraid of what we are doing, because we are doing it within the law.” I just feel that how he plans on doing it lawfully—especially how they are not being treated fairly under the law—is another point to this speech: no matter how unfair all of this is, he plans to lead them respectfully and fairly. That truly is commendable.
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