Dr. Martin Luther Kings’ “I Have a Dream” Speech was a call for action, that all people should be treated as equals, an action society needs to work towards today. The statement was expressed as to address the various challenges that faced the community. It was a speech whose main aim was to address the need for equality, equity, freedom and the need for the realization of the human rights.
Martin Luther King expressed various issues that had brought the society to a deterioration point. Discrimination based on color, origin, sex, race, and even social status in the society was a major challenge that many American people faced. Today, the nation faces the same difficulties, upon which many people have been forced out of their country, their homes, or even killed.
The need for equity and equality for the humanity was a major call for Martin Luther King. He was able to state that all human should be treated as equals, regardless of their sexual orientation, family status, place of origin, the physical appearance or any other factor. He stated that all humans were equal and that each person deserved respect, love, care and even the sense of belonging.
Luther gave the society the challenge of taking care of their rights freedom, particularly when the ruling regimes posed a problem for the whole society. King was concerned with the brutality that some of the members of the community went through, in the hands of the other people. In his speech, Martin Luther addressed the issue of police brutality, which had seen to the loss of the thousands of lives, many people being held up in the cells and many more missing. Luther also addressed the issues of marriages, and the transgender issues (Bogado 4).
Martin Luther King on Police Brutality and Violence
Martin Luther King was able to address the issue of police brutality. King expressed his concern on the issues where the police had been used to victimize people who were innocent, or even fighting for their rights. Today, the society faces the same challenges, where the police officers are used to victimize and even instill fear in people. The police have been involved in various crimes against humanity, which has led to the loss of lives, homes and even property of individuals.
Many governments use the police to secure and safeguard their interests. The police officers are used to injure, kill, instill fear and even deport people from their homes, based on political, social or even ethnic issues (Bennet 3).Today, the police officers are used to cause pain to the people instead of protecting them. This was a crime against humanity, as stated by Martin Luther King. The police officers should only be there to safeguard and protect the people, without any form of discrimination.
In the modern society, people are coming together to fight the police brutality, stop the violence and save a peaceful society through various ways. People have been able to join organizations that stand against the violence against human violence. Many activists have come up in a bid to stop the police brutality in all way possible. The organizations are both national, regional and even international, whose main aim is to fight for the welfare of humankind.
Martin Luther on the Transgender Issues
Martin was able to address the issue of the transgender people in connection to the same-sex marriages, and the challenges these people go through. King addressed all the issues that concerned the gay people, the lesbians, the bisexuals and the transgender (LGBT). In his speech, King addressed the way the society had been in the move to victimize and even kill the people who possessed or even showed the characters for the LGBT.The discrimination against these people was either due to the societal organization, the norms that prevail within the religious helm among other factors.
The society has been on the move to fight these people and even discriminate them. The religion does not recognize them; the community does not welcome them, and everyone is on the move to make sure that such people do not exist. In the modern society, the police have also been used to victimize such people, kill them take bribes from them so that the police won’t harm them (Sherouse 2).
The LGBT people have been the target of the modern society, in which all manners of discrimination have been imposed on them, in a move to make their lives hard to survive. The police have been on the move to arrest them, kill them and even ensure that such people do not enjoy any rights. The LGBT people are being held up in cells, where loneliness and problems reduce them to nothing, but lonely souls (Duffy 3). The rights of these people have never r been respected. The society does not treat them like people who deserve to be respected. The police officers have been on the move to make sure that the LGBT people never have peace in the society.
Martin Luther King on the Human Equality, Equity and Solidarity
Martin Luther King addressed the issues of human equality, equity, and solidarity Martin argued t6hat all human were equal, regardless of their race, color, religion, ethnic and social status, the economic and the political orientation, sexual orientation, and even physical appearance (Rebeles 2). The need for human equity and equality was the call of the day for many.
Martin was able to call for the human solidarity in the fight against the government regimes that discriminated against people. Marin expressed his concern in the way people were being treated, based on the race, that there were people who were more superior to others. People had to wake up and fight for their rights, and the regimes that do not respect the rule of law does not comply with the rights of the citizens and uses force to victimize the people (Nielsen 4).
Conclusion
As per the above report, it can be strongly argued that Dr. Martin Luther Kings I Have a Dream Speech was a call for action, that all individuals should be treated as equals, an action society needs to work towards today. The issues that face the society today have been of great impact, and reflection forms the Speech Martin Luther King gave, many decades away. The society, therefore, should stand up, and fight for their rights, and fight against human disgrace and discrimination (Blanc 4).
If the people do not stand for what is right, and just, then the society is on the verge of experiencing a world war, a war that involves those who are oppressed, against those who oppress them. The need for human to cater for each other is, therefore, a call for every one of us in the society.
Works Cited
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Nielsen, Cynthia R. “Martin Luther King Jr. on Human Solidarity, an Inescapable Network of Mutuality, and the Dangers of Un-interrogated “Whiteness”’. 21‑Jan‑2013. Web 12th April 2016 (http://percaritatem.com/2013/01/21/martin-luther-king-jr-on-human-solidarity-and-an-inescapable-network-of-mutuality-and-the-dangers-of-un-interrogated-whiteness/)
Sherouse, Beth. “A Problem for the Movement: Martin Luther King, Jr., Bayard Rustin and LGBT People”. The Human Rights Campaign, January 20, 2015. Web 12th April 2016 (http://www.hrc.org/blog/a-problem-for-the-movement-martin-luther-king-jr.-bayard-rustin-and-lgbt-pe)
