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1. What is historical significance of Martin Lur King??s speech? [NEB][10]
2. Why was Martin Lur KIng??s speech so popular? Explain. [NEB][3]
3. Summarise speech, "I Have a Dream".
??I Have A Dream? is an unforgettable and historically significant speech delivered by Martin Luther King, a black civil right campaigner, to millions of Americans blacks and whites on August 28, 1963 on an occasion of 100 years of Lincolns emancipation proclamation which set the Negro slaves free from their slavery in America constitutionally, addressing millions of blacks and whites and has become the hope and dreams of all Americans blacks who had been struggling for their rights and freedom. Though the American constitution and The Declaration of Independence have promised equal rights, justices and freedom to all the blacks and whites, this is not implemented in practices. There is still racial descrimination, injustice , hatred and inequalities between the whites and blacks. The blacks are treated to be slaves and are exile in their own country and are compelled to live a poor and miserable life and are banned from the pursuit of happiness.
In his unforgettable speech, I Have A Dream, Martin Luther King is complaining about the condition of the American Blacks of being in the chains of descrimination, inequality, hatred, injustice etc and hopes that in the near future, the Blacks will gets equal rights, freedom, justice and pursuit of happiness as promised to them by the American constitution. He further says that they should continue their struggle until they establish equality, peace, and brotherhood in America. However, their struggle should be without violence. If they keep on struggling in a disciplined way, they will achieve their aims. He further dreams that one day, the chains of hatred, racial descrimination, injustice and inequalities will be broken. The new sun will rise with the rays of liberty, equality, peace and brotherhood.
In nutshell, the central idea of the speech is that the colour of the skin is not important. What is important is the humanity. King wants to end the sad picture by making protest with the policy of civil disobedience and Civil Right Movement and urges all the Blacks and middle class whites to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, and even to go to jail together and to stand for the freedom together so that there will be a sweet music of liberty, justice and equality all over America.
4. What does sad picture of society as exposed by Martin Lur King refer to? [NEB][3]
5. Discuss ?? I Have A Dream?? as a plea for freedom and equality. [NEB][10]
6. To what extent does king??s personal authority lend power to his words? [NEB][3]
7. What is Martin Lur Kind complaining about? [NEB][3]
8. Argue in favour of some course of action in a situation that you consider an injustice. Racial injustice is one possible area, or unfairness to any minority, or to women, children, old, ex-convicts, handicapped, poor. If possible, narrow subject to a particular incident or a local situation on which you can write knowledgeably. [NEB][10]
9. When will coloured people be satisfied, according to king? Does he encourages m to start violence? [NEB][3]
10. What seems to be King??s purpose in making speech? [NEB][3]
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