全英文马丁路德金演讲后感.doc

NOT JUST A DREAM
Martin Luther King is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
We all know about Dr King’s civil rights work, and his I HAVE A DREAM speech. But did we all know that he had two other dreams? WHERE DO E FROM HERE? that explains Dr King’s vision for the end of poverty has been out of print 40 years. He not only focused on Civil Rights, but illustrated a sort of socialist vision for an integrated society. We could have ended poverty a decade ago, except we choose to attach Iraq and blow up a trillion dollars doing it instead of ending poverty. Dr. King provided a snapshot of where Americans were in 1967. Two turning points had been reached. First, his program of nonviolent direct action was clearly winning the struggle against old fashioned southern segregation, and Dr. King was looking toward the next step. He believed that the next logical step toward setting people free was a massive government program addressing the problem of poverty. Second, within the civil rights movement, a "black power" mentality was gaining prominence. Some argued that whites should be excluded from the civil rights movement, and that nonviolence should be abandoned. Dr. King insisted that this approach would only balkanize our country, having