MAWLANA BHASHANI SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY

Santosh, Tangail - 1902

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Review on
Martin Luther's 'I have a dream' & Abraham Lincoln's The Gettysburg Address
Speech "

COURSE TITLE: Race, Ethnicity and Crime

COURSE CODE: CPS 4111

Submitted by:
Student name: Amina Akter
Student ID: CP18038
Session: 2017-18
Year: 4th Semester: 1st

Submitted to: Mohammed Jahirul Islam

Associate Professor, Department of CPS, MBSTU

Date of Submission: 15.04.2022

DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINOLOGY AND POLICE

" Review of Martin Luther's 'I have a dream' & Abraham Lincoln's The
Gettysburg Address Speech "

Summary :
" I have a Dream " is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activities and
Baptist Minister, Martin Luther king Jn, during the March on Washington for jobs and freedom on
the August 28, 1963. In the speech, king called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism
in the United States. His speech some of the most iconic of the 20thc century had profound effect
on the national consciousness. Though his leadership, the civil rights movement opened doors to
education and employment that had long been closed to black American.

The Gettysburg Address is a speech that US President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the
American civil war of the dedication of the soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania on the after noon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the union
armies defeated those of the confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg. It is one of the best known
speech in American history. This speech encapsulates everything that the United States was
struggling with during that time.

Learning & Evaluation :

The main objects of Martin Luther king's speech are demanding racial Justice and an integrated
society for the black community and also as the US declaration of Independence. His words proved
to be a touchstone for understanding the social and political condition and gave a vocabulary to
express what was happening. The key message in the speech is that all people are created equal.
His speech has been described as a political treatises. The first half of his speech portrays not an
idealized American dream but a picture of American night mare of racial injustice. In his speech
he had repeated some themes such as "I have a dream ", "we can never be satisfied ", and "when
will you be satisfied ". By these themes, he tried to present the racial injustice, exploitation,
brutality against Negro. He just wanted to make the real promises of democracy, rising from the
darkness of segregation, ensuring Negro's mobility and fairer future of racial harmony and
integration.
The Gettysburg Address embodies what US strands for but also show why US is a great country.
The beginning of his speech sets the tone for the message Lincoln is trying to convey. In his
address, he states " four score and seven years ago our father bought forth on this continent, a new
nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal ". In
this famous quota he is trying to make the statement that his country is founded on the principal
of equality. Another point of his speech is that the nation will have a new birth of freedom and that
the government by the people for the people, shall not perish from earth. He also included "we are
still a country for the people and it will not change. Lincoln was able to convey a message of hope
and determination when it was hard to have either of them.