I have recently pitched for this Project and I have mainly received positive feedback.

I spoke about his background, his past history of being a national figure and how he wanted racial equality through a non-violence protest.  I thought he was a great man who stood up for black people not only in the US but all over the world.  He never gave up for his fight to freedom.

I then outlined the speech which i thought was most powerful, most enthusiastic, passionate part.  I already had an idea about how I wanted to the speech to be edited.  This is splitting the speech in half as the first half is dark, talks about slavery and racists then lightens up as we go further down the speech.  This includes King speaking about rights, freedom saying how everyone is equal.  This part of the speech would be know where as forceful without his raise in voice.  It gets much louder, you can almost feel anger in it.  The speech really made an impact for me as how he made it personal for himself.  The quote is as follows;

''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''.

For me this is what won me over any of the other speeches as it is so strong.  

The first half of the speech is not as powerful as it doesn't necessarily need to be.  I have got 3 main parts for each half of my selected speech and they are as follows;

First half,

''But 100 years later the negro, is still not free''

''The Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later'' 

''Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time''

Second half,

''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, I have a dream today''

''One day down there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers, I have a dream today''

''We will be able to speed up that day when all of God's 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!''