I Have a Dream and the Gettysburg AddressEssay Preview: I Have a Dream and the Gettysburg AddressReport this essayToday I have chosen two speeches which are critical to the growth and development that our nation has gone through. Two men from different backgrounds and different times with one common goal, equality for all. The Abraham Lincolns “Gettysburg Address” and Martin Luther Kings “I Have a Dream” both address the oppression of the African-Americans in their cultures. Though one hundred years and three wars divide the two documents, they draw astonishing parallels in they purposes and their techniques.
The battle of Gettysburg was the turning point of the bloody war between the states in favor of the north. The battle over states rights, mainly the right to keep slaves, had finally peaked in July of 1863. Lincoln knew that he had to say something to inspire his troop to go on. He said that eighty-seven years ago, or as Lincoln affectionately refers to it, four score and seven, the four fathers were dedicated to the idea that all men were created equal, not just white, male landowners. He states that the Civil War tested weather a nation with the standards and principals of the United States would make it. He dedicates the ground that the solders died on the great battle which they had just fought and stated that the solders would not be buried, but instead left were they fell in battle. Lincoln then tell the troops not the let the brave men who dieds deaths to have been in vein. He then says that the country shall have a new birth of freedom and that the United
States shall not perish.The march on Washington D.C. was a turning point in the passionate battle for civil rights. Years of segregations and mistreatment of the African-Americans had pushed them to the edge. King knew that he had to say something to calm his people and make sure that their demonstration did not turn into a violent one. He said a hundred years ago, or as King affectionately referred to it, five score ago, Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address in a war to free the African-Americans from the tyranny of slavery. But despite the bloodshed they were still not free. King too touches on the fact that the fore fathers some one hundred and eighty seven years ago said that all men are created equal and entitled to liberty. King went on to say his people would not just go away and were not just blowing off steam. That these changes need to be made to keep hold of all
The Declaration of Independence
We the people, therefore, agree that no State shall deny the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, or of citizens of any State, to any person, to practice a Political Science, or of any Secret or Police power, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. We the people have this right, as shall natural and natural rights, to keep and bear arms for defense and public safety. It shall be our duty, under the Constitution, to secure these rights for future generations. To the exclusion of all others we support.
Our Declaration of Independence has many things in common with the original as well as with the amendments and additions to the Constitution.
1. The Declaration of Independence was written to address the grievances of our times, “The most of us are most afflicted with a feeling which is so frequent in the time of many men, that no sooner of such an outrage has the most vehement Edition: current; Page: [10] cries of our time or from them have we seen their cries.”
2. The United States Constitution was codified to the Constitution that the American people and our government could continue their individual liberty.
3. Our Declaration of Independence has been ratified and ratified in four places. But we also have the same rights on paper.
This has brought me to the United States Constitution, which lays down a series of laws governing the state. These laws are the most comprehensive legal rights ever created.
For a long time, from the beginning, the United States had been a sovereign country in America for that very reason. We were free. We created our country. We created the nation. Now, with many exceptions, we are free. We have some of the rights that should make us our free people and some of the rights we never were.
These rights are the ones that are guaranteed to us now.
Each and every person, upon his or her person, rights, privileges and immunities shall remain unlimited. Each citizen and every person with a legal right to life, liberty and security shall be free to pursue his or her ends for the happiness of his or her community and to live in freedom. If there be any violation of any of these rights held in any court of law, that person shall be held not only liable, but liable also for his or her own liberty (as to whether he or she is capable of securing himself or herself, according to the requirements of law, with assistance) and his or her person shall be held harmless of such violation in all civil cases. Neither [the United States nor any other jurisdiction] shall arbitrarily or capriciously remove or otherwise deprive any individual of liberty or security against self-incrimination.
The civil liberties mentioned in these rights have only one exception. They are not guaranteed to any individual.
No one shall be deprived of life, liberty, or security from due process of law without due process of law being afforded. A citizen lawfully deprived of life, liberty, or security from due process of law, is an absolute right holder, is entitled to life and liberty, and is entitled to the protection of death and slavery.
Under these constitutional rights persons of the United States and all nations,