00:30Greetings,
00:32Some of the most difficult things for the human civilization
00:35are always happening in some corner of the world.
00:39In short,
00:41as soon as the civilization emerged,
00:43the anachronisms also emerged.
00:46One of the anachronisms that emerged
00:50was that black people were treated as slaves.
00:53Abraham Lincoln, a great man,
00:56said in a previous program that
00:58the slavery of black people was abolished
01:00by the American invasion of India.
01:02But in America,
01:04except for the abolition of slavery,
01:06equal rights were denied to black people.
01:09Today, we are going to meet a person
01:12who struggled to remove that obstacle
01:14that existed since the 20th century.
01:17He is Martin Luther King,
01:19who fought for the equal rights of black people
01:22in the United States on January 15, 1929.
01:26He was born in Atlanta, USA on January 15, 1929.
01:34He studied cooking at the Boston Polytechnic University.
01:38Then he became a Baptist pastor.
01:41The American environment,
01:43where equal rights were denied to black people,
01:46always hurt his feelings.
01:48In the 20th century,
01:50America, which was a world-leading country
01:53in terms of economic development,
01:55was not in a situation
01:57where its people could live equally.
02:00The whites saw black people
02:02as despicable.
02:04Black people have a separate place
02:07in food, hotels, restaurants,
02:10and public places.
02:13Black people should only use those places.
02:16Instead of those places,
02:18do you know what would happen
02:20if they came to the whites' territory?
02:23The prison sentence for those
02:25who violate those immoral principles is certain.
02:28Can you believe it?
02:30It's amazing, but it's true.
02:32How long will it last?
02:34On December 1, 1955,
02:37an incident occurred
02:39to determine the patience of black people.
02:42That day, a black woman named Rosa Park
02:45sat on a bench.
02:47At one point,
02:49some whites also sat on the same bench.
02:52Then, as they did not have a place to sit,
02:55the man who had left the bench
02:57called Rosa Park.
02:59Rosa was arrested
03:01for refusing to get up.
03:03Black people, who had endured
03:05humiliation for many years
03:07and remained silent,
03:09did not give up this time.
03:11About 50,000 black people
03:13took part in the protest.
03:15The police also
03:17fired guns at them.
03:19It was a protest
03:21to express the insult
03:23of black people.
03:25Martin Luther King
03:27has great respect
03:29for Mahatma Gandhi
03:31and his non-violence struggle.
03:33He kept the image
03:35of Annal Gandhi
03:37in his house and worshiped him.
03:39He was very confident
03:41and did not interfere
03:43in his struggles.
03:45He was nominated
03:47for three times
03:49in equal rights.
03:51Some whites also
03:53praised him
03:55after seeing
03:57how he led his party
03:59very well.
04:01But many enemies
04:03planned to kill him.
04:05He fired bullets
04:07against his house.
04:09But Luther King
04:11did not give up his
04:13non-violence struggle.
04:15In 1959,
04:17he went to India
04:19to learn about
04:21non-violence struggle.
04:23He stayed there for a month
04:25and learned about
04:27non-violence struggle
04:29from the leaders
04:31who were friends
04:33with Gandhi.
04:35Luther King
04:37In 1963,
04:39he organized
04:41the biggest non-violence
04:43protest in Washington.
04:45Around 250,000 people
04:47gathered there.
04:49Martin Luther King
04:51was the main speaker
04:53of the protest.
04:55In his speech,
04:57he said,
04:59I have a dream.
05:01One day,
05:03my four children
05:05should be respected
05:07not only for their
05:09non-violence struggle
05:11but also for their
05:13values.
05:15The next year,
05:17in 1964,
05:19Luther King
05:21was awarded
05:23a Nobel Prize
05:25for his struggle
05:27for equal rights.
05:29In 1965,
05:31the U.S. government
05:33abolished human rights.
05:35Following that,
05:37the U.S. passed
05:39the Human Rights Act
05:41which made
05:43black people and white people
05:45equal.
05:47Luther King,
05:49who believed that
05:51black people alone
05:53would not have the result
05:55if they were given
05:57equal rights,
05:59joined other
06:01people.
06:03However,
06:05many supporters
06:07were angry
06:09that other people
06:11joined him.
06:13In 1968,
06:15on April 4,
06:17that is today,
06:19a white terrorist
06:21shot Luther King.
06:23He died there.
06:25At that time,
06:27he was only 39 years old.
06:29Violence in India
06:31prevails in the U.S.
06:33However,
06:35Martin Luther King
06:37was shot dead
06:39just like Gandhi.
06:41The world
06:43mourned Luther King's death.
06:45It also called him
06:47the Black Gandhi.
06:49According to Martin Luther King,
06:51on the third Monday of January,
06:53the U.S.,
06:55Martin Luther King Day
06:57was celebrated.
06:59On that day,
07:01the entire U.S.
07:03was in mourning.
07:05Even if some destructive forces
07:07destroy the lives of those
07:09who bravely fought against
07:11social injustice,
07:13no one can destroy
07:15their place in history.
07:17Gandhi's footsteps
07:19proved that violence prevails
07:21in India.
07:23Martin Luther King
07:25will definitely destroy
07:27the sky of history
07:29for those who destroy
07:31social injustice.
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