“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character…”

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Instructions:

Began the answer by naming the speaker of this quote.

Introduce and talk about the US Civil Rights Movement.

Talk about Martin Luther King’s role in the movement.

Called for boycott of buses.

Losses to government.

Segregation banned in buses.

Civil rights act passed.

Solution:

The above quote was spoken by Martin Luther King Jr. in a speech during the US Civil Rights Movement that called for the end of racism in the United States. The movement aimed to get equal rights for African Americans as the American society at that time supported laws of racial segregation.

Blacks and whites were separated when it came to the use of transportation services, educational institutions, and public spaces. Black Americans did not have the right to vote.

Martin Luther King Jr. called for a year-long boycott of the buses in Montgomery state. It resulted in huge losses and ultimately a court order was passed in 1956 to end the separate seating arrangements.

Martin Luther King Jr. encouraged people to march in huge numbers to demand their civil rights, programmes for employment, the right to vote, proper housing facilities and an education system free of racial discrimination.

The efforts of Martin Luther King Jr. to end discrimination helped in the passage of The Civil Rights Act in 1964.

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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring - when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of Gods children - black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles,Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.

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(a) My country gives more money to international institutions. Therefore, I want to be treated with more respect and exercise more power.

(b) My country may be small or poor. But my voice must be heard with equal respect, because these decisions will affect my country.

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Q. He was the leader of the American Civil Rights Movement that ended in the 1960s. He fought against a social division in the USA. He once quoted:
"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character".

Who is being referred to here, and which social division is being reflected in his speech?

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