Civil Rights Movement Speech

Within each and every one of us, there lies a very distinct and recognizable force that urges us to take action. It brings forth a feeling of which we all are unmistakably familiar. Big or small, we all have felt this feeling. It is felt it in the midst of a crisis when the safety of life is the only thing at mind. Or when vigilant confrontation arises, and the truth must be heard. It moves within us in situations of less dire consequence too, like when the alarm sounds on an early morning and the blood in your body seems to have frozen over completely solid, throughout the course of the night. Your limbs feel too stiff to get up, yet the alarm does not cease to sound on and remind you of what must be done. The call to move remains the
For the oppressed heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, with the sanctity of freedom at stake, answering the call to move was the only way that the truth of liberty could be heard.
When you stroll further back through our history you find that in times of need, our country does not resort to divisiveness amongst the people, instead, we are renowned for rallying together in order to overcome. At its birth, our nation revealed to the rest of the world the persevering nature of a people who proudly bolstered the identity, “Americans,” with a smile on their face. Our founding fathers showed us the proven spoils of bravery. Men of the likes of Jefferson, Adams, Madison, and Washington brought together the hearts of the shaken and oppressed, in the face of a seemingly insurmountable enemy, and overcame by answering their call to move. And in the process, unbeknownst to them, these men engendered something so remarkable that it has outlasted the tests of time and conflict; they created something that is still to be cherished by the American people today: they created the American
He was a NAVY Seal from the well-known Seal Team 6 and was specifically responsible for firing the shots that killed Osama Bin Ladin. He and his bold men embarked on a daring mission that was regarded by many high-ranking military analysists as being a one-way trip. Mr. O’Neill, in preparation for the mission, had written several letters to his children, and arranged that they be delivered if the mission ran its expected course, and he did not make it back home. The letters, he explained, would give his children the reason why their father would not be making it home again. He never disclosed the exact words that were written in those letters, but he truly did not have to. Those heartfelt letters exemplified the American spirit that we should all hold ourselves accountable to. Tears rolled down my cheeks as I heard the hero recount his decision to answer that fateful call to