Blog 5

I chose the image taken from Martin Luther King Jr's speech in Washington D.C. because it epitomizes freedom, in my mind. There aren't too many other countries where someone can get up in front of that many people and give a speech of that magnitude without being a politician. Freedom to me is really the right to do whatever you want, as long as it doesn't harm others. That's a very simple and blunt definition; however, it is what I think of when I think of freedom. Part of what makes our country so special is something we take so much for granted. The right to free speech and assembly are two things that many other places in the world can only dream about. The fact that all these people assembled to hear a man talk about something that was very much controversial at the time was pretty miraculous to say the least.

To me, this is freedom. Freedom is the ability to stand up for yourself and justice. Freedom is the right to choose whether or not you think our government is right or not. Freedom is the right to do something about it. That's freedom to me.