America's Pursuit Of Freedom Essay

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Most people today believes that America has perfect freedom. However, in President Barack Obama’s speech that was addressed at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial, in October 16, 2011, Obama states that America has made huge progress to freedom and racial equality within the last fifty years, but the nation still has more to accomplish. I personally agree with Obama in the fact that the nation has made big improvements to freedom and racial equality but we still haven’t achieved true freedom and equality. To start off, in the speech “The Gettysburg Address” spoken by Abraham Lincoln, an example of imperfect freedom was represented. For instance, Lincoln states,”that we highly resolve the dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom” (3). This illustrates how Lincoln believes we should achieve what the soldiers fought for in the civil war, which was freedom of slavery. This strongly supports the idea of imperfect freedom in America because at this point in history, many people, mainly from the south, believed that slavery should exist …show more content…

In the speech, it mentions, ”With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day” (10). This demonstrates that if we believe that we were all born equal, then we would be able to work together, struggle together, stand up for freedom together, and do more in harmony. Thus this relates to how America has imperfect racial equality because King indicated that if we truly understand that we were all born equally with the same rights, then we would not have the trouble of one race thinking it’s superior than the other. Therefore, America still has more progress to make if it wants to gain freedom and racial

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