Daneel Brown

This helps me with my work.

Marco Chan

thank you for sharing this speech and having the actually speech to read.

Linda K

I AM SO HAPPY TO HAVE THIS SPEECH TO READ, I WISH I HAD BEEN OLD ENOUGH TO HEAR IT IN PERSON.

Jason Tong

This is GREAT. I like the way he said that he wished that the world would change. black ppls and white ppls work together. i would wish he would add azn ppls in it.(im azn so…ya)
My School want to know why he was killed or murdered. well i would like to know i dont think its in the words up there. thx if u answer my question!

Tornado

Dr.King prepared America to what it is now, an african-american as the U.S. President.
Unfortunately he was not allowed to live and see the change which he was great feal of.

Jennifer

May America quickly emerge from the nightmare of the last eight years…free at last, free at last!

Brother Val

To Jason,
Dr. king was killed for what he belived in, FREEDOM for all men. It is parasites like the person who murdered him that prevented him from seeing what he created. Justice and equality for all men.

To Tornado, Dr. King is seeing his dream and will see the the first Black President of the US of A from the thrones of heaven, next to our Lord and Savior Jesus.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST, THANK GOD ALMIGHTY WE ARE FREE AT LAST…….

Pomak Andrew Katu

That was a tremedous speech By Our Hero Dr. Marthin Lurther King a great legendary of all time for blacks (African) who really inspired, encouraged and strongly believe that one day there would be freedom for blacks.
And today is a great day to humanity. OBAMA RULES AMERICANs AND THE ENTIRE WORLD AS WHOLE and that has always being the dream Luther King.

d jackson

that was beautiful and i am only 17teen

p.mothibedi

I JUST WANNA SAY GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!!
FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST, THANK GOD ALMIGHTY WE ARE FREE AT LAST……………………..
THANX 2 DA GREAT LEADERS SUCH AS ************ & D.R MARTHIN LUTHER KING j.r among others AMERICA & OF COURSE SOUTH AFRICA “BLACK & WHITE PEOPLE ARE EQUAL AT LAST”

Shinnkew

god bless

farooq

one of the greatest speech that i have heard

Arya Gupta

I come from India. I’d heard so much about this speech from Dr. King. I read it for the very first time today. A big thank you to you’ll. That speech can move a mountain.

President Obama has come to complete Dr. King’s unfinished dream. All the best to you – America. The entire community of freedom-lovers are with you.

Ajibade Oluwaseun

Dear President Obama,
Permit me like Millions of people the world over to send a congratulatory message on the rare feat of being the first African–American and the 44th president of the United States of America. It is indeed a rare feat and one inspirational in the sense that tells us all that, whatever thing any man can so think, he can so achieve.
While it lasts, and while I will like to dwell upon it like every other human being, the challenge of what lies ahead was what woke me up this morning. It goes beyond the pomp and pageantry, beyond the fame and even the responsibility to not just the people of the United States and the world at large. It’s in the total fulfillment of the Prophetic speech that heralded your coming some years ago; “I have a dream” by Rev Martin Luther King (jnr). The fulfillment of that dream, I dare to say is not in your becoming the president of the United States, but rather in your displaying to the world at this time of great economic turbulence what you are capable of doing; like the late Reverend puts it “…not because of the color of his skin but the content of his heart”.
We wait patiently for your steps being guided to do that which is right; we wait for the influence of your light; we wait as the dawn of your era sweeps away the scary night; a chance to prove to the world that no race is inferior to the other but when given the right chance the space, every man from every race is capable of making an impact that will be trans-generational.
Till we meet again “in my dreams” to wine and dine.
It’s your Friend,
Ajibade Oluwaseun,
26 yrs
Ile-Ife,
Osun-State, Nigeria.

Rhonda

Ajibade, just when I thought I was done, after a day of watching history unfold, you made me cry again Blessings from Canada, I’m also very optimistic for the future under Mr. Obama. And a big thank you to Minor Matters for providing this historic speech and text. It should be required reading for all citizens of the world, still so stirring.

Little Brit Girl

I Love This Speach,And As A White British Person (Not That That Matters) I Look Forward To What The Future Holds For Mr Obama, I Think Already He Has Proved Himself, Just For All His Work And Effort.I Wish Him All The Best And Cannot Wait To See The Changes That He Will Make, Not Only To America But To The World. I Also Love This Speach As it Comes From The Heart And Is Completly True. God Bless Yo All

LuLu

This is amazing!!!

micah

boozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz kiddas bbezzz

EastAfrican girl

I had never read this speech before.Obama becoming president mad me look it up.Very moving stuff..all things are possible!

Lucy Nambela

May The Almighty God guide President Obama. Thank God for making this dream come true, hats off to Rev. Martin Luther King for this dream. We can make it if we believe.

Clgurls Rule

I think Obama is gifted by Dr. King. OH PRAISE THE LORD!

Jay Graham

Let us not forget that King said that he had a dream that his four children would live in a
nation “where t hey will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their
character.” Americans have voted in a new President because of the color of his skin. We await knowledge of the content of his character.

Jason Tong

wow so many ppls said somethin once i said something LOL LMAO

Jason Tong

THX Brother Val Now i can tell my teacher and freinds this !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jason Tong

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bre

dis iz a strong man he has dne much 4us a pplz dont even appreciate him iz sad man

Isaac Ebhohimhen

Dr. Marthin Luther King Jr. saw the dream and he believed and vemently pursued the dream without violence.” But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

I hope that whatever plans and stretegies President Obama would apply to improve the living conditions and environment of USA and indeed the world, he will do so without force or violence unlike his predecessor(George Bush Jr.).
Freedom at Last………………………

Isaac O. Isaac
Ikeja
Lagos, Nigeria

Mandla

I read Martin Luther King’s book,
“Chaos or Community” in 1969. It was not about one man becoming a President of the USA. it was about an entire race of people being denied their humanity.

The are words that puzzled me then because I was barely 14 years old, these were words used by Dr King:
” haves and have-nots”
“unenforceable laws” ( of love for one’s fellow man)
“discrimination”
“violence as a means to settle political problems.”

Dr King was deeply concerned with the Vietnam War at the time; a war which belonged to the French by right but the Americans bought into with their usual carefree bravado and when things did not go their way literally massacred the Vietnamese for defending themselves. Napalm, biological warheads were all buzz words that Americans used with inspired abandon in Vietnam. Even poor Muhammad Ali was stripped of his title for protesting.

I wonder if Obama sees the similarities with the current War on Terror and the rendition of people for their thoughts and beliefs. After all human renditions started in 1619 when English people stole fellow human beings from Africa to go and work for 219 years as free labour in the USA agricultural sector. What massive capital formation, what time for leisure and “thinking”!

Obama is a nice guy because he doesnt have slave ancestry which alienates and scares off many white people Americans. He is a well spoken eloquent Havard educated Black man. Some kind of Sydney Poitiers. He will for many years be used as a litmus test; any black man who does not fit his profile will never hope to lead in America. I dont think Obama will agree with that. His naivette and innocence is forgivable. But if whites elected a George Bush into the highest office surely, Martin Luther king’s dream will be a reality if they will also, one day, elect a black George Bush into a president with the half intellect and paranoid malapropisms to boot.

My fear is we wont as black men match the Obama test and we shall forever be judged inadequate because we dont satisfy the Obama Test.

In America if you male and black you will be a felon serving time in jail; for crimes that white Hollywood stars serve and give only community
service. If you black you will be expected to excel in sports and music all other avenues will be unattainable to you due to institutional discrimination. That is why Martin luther’s dream was not about one man ascending the throne but an entire race kept into psychological, economical, and political subjugation.

I tremble when i think of the things that Obama must try to put right. They are far greater for a son of an African immigrant father and white American mother. If anything it is his mother who was a hero, because in the early 1960′s she dared to marry a black man. It was a time when she could have been killed and ostracised. She is the one who displayed courage and conviction far ahead of her years and times. She gave us an Obama and raised him single handedly teaching him the lyrical English that today mesmerises us with the intensity of the Sermon on the Mount.

America likes quick fix things: “the greatest sausage in the world!”, “the biggest humburger in the world!” , but it also churns out the biggest financial crisis in the world, the biggest violent prisons in the world Abu ghraib and Camp Delta… and we can only hope that it supports Obama so that he doesnt become the biggest phoney in the world.

Dr. RaDine Amen-ra Harrison-Pitts

Dr. Martin Luther King’s Dream
Is it really Barack Obama or has the dream yet to come?
Who are the Negro People?

As the new U.S President B. Obama touts about being the embodiment of the late DR. Martin Luther King dream for America, I can‘t help but wonder, who are the people DR. King is talking about when he speaks of the Negro People? Who are the Negro people?

Has anyone taken the time to read and comprehend Dr. Martin Luther Kings I HAVE A DREAM speech, if they did they will notice there is no mention of African people, African struggle, African Americans.

I Have a Dream states “One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.”

He only mentions the condition of the Negro people in their homeland of America and their relationship with the new nation of the United States. At some point in time a person reading this speech should want to clarify, “Who are the Negro People- the blacks as they are identified?” To answer these questions one needs to identify some facts.

What does the term Negro signify? The term Negro people signify the Indigenous American people or Amerindians the colonial term used to represent them is Negro The Negro American race or black Americans represent the continuation of the remaining natural linage and bloodlines of the indigenous American People belonging the land of America before European invasion born from American Indian women. The founding father of the U.S established a new form of society on American soil. In this new society American Indian women and her descendants are used to SERVE as human commodity (slaves) people living in freedom(without their natural rights to self determination) but not being free (collective self determination) in the United States. Negro people represent the descendants from American Indian women or enslaved American Indians of America.

He continues and speaks about the full citizenship promised by the U.S to all Negro people in their homeland, and reveals the fact the U.S has not kept its promise; he states the Negro People have received a “Bad Check”.

“It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds”

What is the deal the United States made with the Negro leadership for the Negro people 1868. The U.S. promised “Citizenship” to the Negro people? If a person would do their research, they would find that the 1868 treaty with Abe Lincoln established the Union of the American Indian people as Negros with the United States and the continent of land belonging to the American Indian people was put in a land trust to be governed by the United States in exchange for American Indian people born from American Indian women were to receive full citizenship meaning the same rights as the people who enslaved them and self determination to develop themselves under this new nation umbrella.

Understanding past U.S history explains why Dr. King ‘s dream of seeing an integrated society’s Negro and Euro-American people working as equals in this nation? The big secret is – The Negro People are the people who are allowing the Nation to exist, without their land there is no Nation, with out there peace there is “no prosperity of this Nation” He also threatened the Negro race of people will not rest until they have justice. In other words “NO Justice, NO Peace” All black American people can attest we are not treated equal nor are we treated equally or regarded as citizens,. In 2009 our people still languish on the out skirts of Euro-American society and the Marjory are captured and living in Prisons, our children live in extreme poverty, we lack collective employment as a nation we are on the brink of extinction. The difference today is Negro people as black American for generations have been forced and influence to assimilate into European attitudes and culture they have lost their connection to their ancestral American Indian culture and connection to their Natural homeland. As a result they lack respect, dignity, hope or direction.

Now that some facts have been revealed, the question to ponder is how did the new elected African president become the ideal of DR. Martin Luther King and the Negro People? Or better yet Why is President Barack Obama a European and African decent immigrant being used to personify the dream of Martin Luther King for the Negro people in the Negro Homeland instead of a Negro president for the country that has yet to give them a GOOD check, Wouldn’t a Negro president show the world, the dream of Martin Luther King has for his people finally came to pass? The answer is President B. Obama does not represent Dr. King’s dream he had for the Negro People. President, B Obama represents a distortion of the Dream, and the Negro people are being Con out of their pants again by the Euro- American (U.S) society and (U.S) media at large.

So exactly what is the semantics around Barack Obama? A European and African decent immigrant who is now a Negro Person, or are Negro people becoming Africa immigrants to their homeland thru identifying themselves with Barack Obama. Is there a national identity switch going on? Are the Negro people being duped out of the dept the United States owes them, the one DR. Martin Luther King spoke about? Are today’s Negro people being setup to be permmentily homeless people, with no place to be fruitful and multiply on the planet? If Negro or black American people become immigrants don’t they lose all there human and inalienable rights to live in the U.S, and lose their civil privileges by becoming immigrants to there homeland through identifying President Barack Obama as one of them? Yet he is a Kenyan African not an American Negro? Will this enable the U.S to destroy the dream of Martin Luther King and remove any claim the Negro people have in the Negro Homeland?

LET’S SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT
As a result, Negro people are being bamboozled again with a new perception that racism has stop in America against them, when in fact the systematic extermination of Negro people are filling up the jails and the graves, the only difference now is that they have a man named Barack Obama to cover over the crimes being committed against them and keep the people invisible and confused. It is a fact most black/Negro people lack education in their heritage, history, and most Negro women have been educated to have little respect for understanding their collective purpose as creators of the race and the sacred Grace we hold- it is woman that nature in trusts to continue their humanity as a valuable part of nature to the planet If they did they would not say they are black and they would understand B Obama is not the first Negro president and recognize and respect Michelle Obama is the first Negro woman in the White house and stand proud because her presence in the White House is a huge strike against the stigma from colonialism of Negro women as inferior woman, while our people understand that the struggle of equality represented by a Negro Man as president has yet to come part of Dr. Kings dream has started but yet to be completely fulfilled. It is up to us not to lose site of who we are and represent, our struggle is not over. It is time to recognize your indigenous identity.
Don’t be fooled by the Hype

Dylan

After the first month of Obama’s presidency, I would say that Dr. Kings Dream is complete. I think that the government has gotten rid of laws that create an unfair environment for any race to live in. I see there are people out there that are racist, there always will be, its what they believe in, and we should respect that as Americans. I see Dr. Kings dream as every race having a equal opportunity to succeed in life. I believe in years to come a cultural change could occur and possibly the question of race will have no relevance to anything. I believe that Obama was the only chance America had to come back from this downfall filled with corruption and greed that had occurred during the last administration. His race never crossed my mind when I was deciding who to vote for and I hadn’t even thought about the fact until it was exploded all over the news and became an issue itself. I feel like we have turned the century and should move on with the times. Slavery was horrible, I am glad I never had to see it; African Americans were treated horrible and I wished it never happened; and the first time I was able to vote in the General Election, I voted for an African American, but more importantly I voted for the best choice on the ballot. Has Dr. Kings dream been accomplished? I believe so, America sees character, not color.

Dawood

His contribution into equality of races in America that we witness now is tremendous.

And it’s not just my opinion. That’s what famous peers said on Martin Luther King: http://www.tributespaid.com/qu.....uther-king

Charlie Bell

You are correct when you say that Martin Luther King Jr.’s- I Have a Dream speech is one of the 29th centuries most important messages. Great call in sharing it here.

Thanks!
The History Man