God's Will.

"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 a table of brotherhood".  One of America’s most influential civil-rights activists quoted this - Martin Luther King Jr. His heartfelt protests, although they were non-violent, helped to raise awareness of racial inequalities in America, resulting in a crucial political change. Martin Luther King Jr. was a powerful orator who grasped the hearts of many people, whether they were black or white and spoke with passion towards what he was trying to point out. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke out for justice to African Americans, for an end to racial discrimination, and against the laws that incorporated it and the unconscious behaviors and beliefs that were supported by those laws. Martin Luther King Jr. has not only caused a change towards African-Americans, but also to the way people think in today’s world. He has encouraged equality in all forms - “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”(Brainyquote) He did have a dream, and today that dream has come true - we now have many examples of people from backgrounds of all races and religions and both sexes who have achieved the highest levels in our society and it is no longer a rarity. When people needed someone to stand up for them, he was there, for the better.
  

Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on 15th January, 1929. His father and grandfather were both baptist preachers and were active in the civil-rights movement. While studying in a college in Atlanta, Martin Luther King Jr. became engaged in the teaching of Mahatma Gandhi, and thoroughly influenced by Gandhi’s success with non-violent activism. Martin experienced racism in his early life, and came to a conclusion to assist the world in becoming a more developed place, where people were judged by the quality of their character instead of the color of their skin. Gandhi’s teachings urge people not to fight physically, but to protest peacefully. Martin Luther King Jr. viewed this system as the answer to unjust treatments that blacks experienced in America. He engaged through the path of order to search for actual freedom for the blacks and he proceeded until he acquired what he had dreamed for. “Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.”(Brainyquote) Blacks and whites were segregated in Montgomery, attending different schools and sitting in separate sections on buses. On some occasions blacks would be required to stand on a bus even though there were vacant seats in the "white" section at the front of the bus. On December 1, 1955 Mrs. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus; the police were called and she was arrested. This occurrence led to a rebel all over America. 

  E.D Nixon, who was a train porter, bailed Rosa Parks out of jail and started contacting people for a boycott of the buses. Blacks would refuse to ride the buses until they received equal treatment, regardless of their skin color. Black leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr. asked for courteous treatment from bus drivers as well as seating on a first-come, first-serve foundation. No one was to be requested to give up a seat for someone else, even if they were white. The boycott lasted for more than a year and blacks either started walking, riding bicycles or rode in car pools to get to work. In 1956 the supreme court ordered that segregation in buses was prohibited. That’s when the freedom riders began riding buses from state to state and doing sit-ins at lunch counters and white waiting rooms. The laws that said blacks were to be denied unquestionable rights began to be protested against in many cities in America. Tranquil marches took place and individuals were being taken into custody only because they were participating in them. On August 28th, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent leaders led one of the most memorable marches in history, where the black leaders led over 200,000 people from the Washington monument to the Lincoln memorial, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I have a dream” speech.

It was during this March that King gave his awe-inspiring "I Have a Dream" speech while speaking from the Lincoln Memorial. He and the other leaders then met with President John F. Kennedy. They asked for numerous things incorporating an end to segregation in public schools, greater protection for African-Americans, and more effective civil rights legislation amongst specific things. In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. was titled times magazines man of the year. He had met Pope Paul VI in 1964 and then was honored as the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. He was awarded this on December 10, 1964 at the age of thirty-five. He gave all of his prize money to assist the Civil Rights movement. “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”(Brainyquote)

  It’s this man that altered peoples viewpoints, it was this man that sent a message to the world that inequalities cannot be accepted in today’s world, if peace is to remain. He is saying that violence can’t be the answer to our problems, and if we take the time to cherish everyone instead of isolating different people because of their imperfections and inferiority's then this world will become a place where people can be who they are without fear, instead of what others need them to be in order to be accepted. “”Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”(Brainyquote) Martin Luther king Jr. devoted his whole life into aiding his people, the people that loved him and supported him, and the people that wouldn’t dare to do what he did. He sacrificed his life in order to create a better world for the next generation of blacks. Commemorating the life of a tremendously significant leader, we celebrate Martin Luther King Day each year in January, the month in which he was born. August 28, the anniversary of Dr. King's 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech, is called "Dream Day”, the day people show their gratitude to the man who allowed them to be recognized, even though he never got there with them. 

“I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.” (Brainyquote) - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.