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How can I continue Dr. King's Dream
By Dant Shaifer-Harriman/12th grade student, Rock Bridge High School
When the words " I have a dream ...." rang out over the "PA," across the
listening ears of thousands, a unique dream was clustered within, and was
standing right before his eyes our eyes. King's dream was for civil
rights. The self right. King wanted the Negro race equal to all other
races and vice versa as night is to day. King struggled for equality in
every daily aspect of life for that freedom of ignorance. King also
advocated non-violence towards equality through peaceful protests, but in
every attempt his message reached those who shared the living, prevailing
dream.
Those who defined the message were those living in the past. The dream saw
those individuals as sad, ignorant, emotional, lost souls living in the
past that time has forgotten. King affected many people with a hope, a new
and bright dream of the future.
Today King's dream is living proof. Stop! take a look around you we are
all Gods creations. The dream, has prevailed, it has arrived and is in the
living color. Everyday kids of all colors go to school together, do
homework projects togetber, ride bikes, Barbie and G.I. Joe, whether it be
adults or kids. This world goes round because of commradeship " the
dream." Yet our religions can coincide in peace. A famous person once
said, " the root of evil is ( Ignorance ). This ignorance starts at the
young age, when the mind is vulnerable and weak. The time and how to carry
on the legacy of the dream is to teach kids at the young age the sense of
right and wrong, common sense of the dream. The only way to deter the
enemy is to inform and form groups or committees, clubs, to travel to the
elementary schools and spread the knowledge of non-violence and equality.
In the future the more we encourage different aspects of the "dream" into
our daily lives and the activities, in our childrens minds. We as a
society participate in the events that are happening around the world
shouldn't be happening. In a way the dream doesn't reach all of us,
because of ignorance and the past, they have forgotten what's important.
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