Some Inspiration from Martin Luther King, Jr.

The following are three examples of the speeches poems and essays that were written this past week, by the students in Room 503, using some of the repetitive phrases from Dr. King's I Have a Dream speech:

Now is the time to change the world. Now is the time to right the wrongs. Now is the time to fix the economy. Now is the time to make tomorrow better.

I have a dream for better educations and jobs. I have a dream that the poor will get food and money. I have a dream for global health care.

We refuse to believe that peace is impossibe. We refuse to believe crimes can't be stopped. We refuse to believe global warming is unstoppable. We refuse to believe wrongs can't be righted.

- Anonymous

Now is the time to raise money
For the poor of the world.
We cannot be satisfied when we see people cry for food.

I have a dream today.

Now is the time to stop wars and
Send soldiers home.
We cannot be satisfied when children
Are dying in places all over the world.

I have a dream today.

Now is the time to donate to hospitals
Where people need our help.
We cannot be satisfied when sick people
Die alone.

I have a dream today.

- Meghan Menendez

In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous "I have a dream" speech. Now 45 years later, the African-American is free at last. Now, 45 years later, an African-American ran for president of the United States of America and won the election. This shows that African-Americans and other minorities are free at last. We are all free at last to be our best. Let freedom ring!

Now is the time for all Americans to realize that they can be free from segregation. Now is the time for all Americans to realize they are free from the affects of slavery. Yet, not all people are free from poverty. Yet, now is the time when we can work to free all people from poverty. Let freedom ring!

Let freedom ring from every church bell. Let freedom ring from every school bell. Let freedom ring over the country. Let freedom ring for every child to be able to live a great life in the future. Let freedom ring so everyone can change the world to make it right.

- Alana Hughes

Let freedom ring,
Ms. Pitman