Dealing with the human rights, the constitutions, the studying of the history and the different stages that peoples and nations had to overcome to reach the awareness and the enjoyment of those rights, in our school we have researched the documents, we have studied the texts and we have produced works which let us know famous people in the world belonging to the international history who in the name of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, have ensured that freedom was not only enshrined in  the law but it is the most important  right of all peoples.

We have been attracted by two major characters: Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, the apostles of nonviolence.

So we wanted to simulate an interview with them .

 

 

 

The freedom and Martin Luther King

 

 

Martin  Luther King was a Protestant Church  Minister  and from his very young age  he showed all his  strength and ability to fight  for freedom, justice and peace.

He believed in the social integration of the white and black communities  and wanted schools, hospitals, and cities where black and white children could run and play together.

 Our students  imagine to  talk to this great leader who gave his life for the  universal respect of the human rights and freedoms.

 

 Students:  Where and when were you born?

 M. L. King : I was born on 15^th  January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. In the U. S. A. 

  Students:   What was your profession?

 M. L. King: I was a  Protestant Church Minister in a church for black people.

 Students:    Why did you go into politics?

M. L. King:  I went into politics because I was not happy with the situation of the black people in                               

                     the U.S.A. and I wanted to help  them.

 Students:  What kind of life did  the black people have in the U.S.A.?

 M. L. King: Black people had a  terrible life…they were tolerated only as servants.

                   They were compelled to do  the  most humble jobs and  to live in slums.

Students  : Could they express  their thoughts and feelings?

                   Did anybody listen to them?             

M. L. King: No, they couldn’t express themselves. They only had to work hard and they couldn’t 

                    say anything.

                  Black children  were not allowed to attend  schools for whites.

                  Black people couldn’t go to  the same  restaurants as whites and  they couldn’t sit in a

                  bus in  seats  reserved to white people.

 Students :  Really ? But this was not fair!!! We know your famous speech “I have a dream”

M. L. King: I know it was not fair and I started to preach about this scandalous situation after a  

                  negro woman, Rosa Parks, was imprisoned because she had taken a  seat reserved for

                   white  people on a bus.                    

Students: Where did it happen?

M. L. King: It happened in 1955 when I  was parson in the city of Montgomery in  Alabama.

 Students:  What did you do then?

 M. L. King:  Mmm….er…the people elected me as president of a  protest committee.

                    We organized a  strike and we refused to use the  town  buses for a  whole year.

 Students : Did you win  your battle?

M. L. King: Yes, at last we  won our battle and the segregation on buses was declared 

                    unconstitutional.

 Students :  But your struggle continued, didn’t it?

M. L. King: Of course! We wanted to assert all our rights, we wanted our freedoms, but always   

                with peaceful means. I have always been against violence.

                   In fact in 1964 I was awarded  the Noble Prize for PEACE.

Students: Did you get what you wanted easily?

 M. L. King: No ,  We didn’t get what we  wanted easily, I was arrested 16 times, my house was

                     destroyed twice  and my family and I were  often in danger, but I still preached peace

                     and freedom.                   

Students:  When did you  finally obtain your objective?

M. L. King:  I finally obtain my objective  when President Kennedy, before his  death, proclaimed  

                     the Law  on Civil Rights.                                                                                 

Students  : What  happened in 1968?

 M. L. King: In 1968 I was murdered. I was  assassinated outside a  hotel in Memphis, in     

                       Tennessee.

Students :  This  is  very sad to  hear. We think that day  America lost an extraordinary man  and the                   

                   black people a father and  a guide. 

 

CALLIGRAMMES :  I have a dream

“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today……………………little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with the little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today.”

“This hope is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the south with. And with this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.”

Martin Luther King

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Freedom and

 

Mohandas

                 

 Karamchand

 

Gandhi                                                                                                                                 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The  students  of our school imagine to meet this small and thin man, with bald head and eye-glasses, dressed in the traditional white Indian costume and a walking stick in his  hand and have a conversation with him about his  beliefs and his way of life.

 

 

Students: Where and when were you born?

Gandhi:   I was  born in the West of India in 1869. Yes, in Porbandar on  October 2^nd , 1869.

Students: What was  your profession?

Gandhi:   I studied in England as a  lawyer, then I came back to India in 1891.

Students: When you came back to India  did people have the right to express their   

                thoughts?

 Gandhi:  When  I came back to India  I found that my people  didn’t have any

                 freedom.  They weren’t free to express their thoughts  and ideas.

Students: Did they have access to any kind of information?

Gandhi :  No, we couldn’t  have access to any kind of information.

Students: Why did you go into politics  then ?

Gandhi:  One year the peasants got almost nothing from their lands but the British                           

               government continued to ask for their taxes.

Students : What did you suggest  to do?

Gandhi :  Well , I said to them not to pay .

Students : What happened then.

Gandhi  : We began to fight against  these bad laws. We wanted our freedom , but 

                  there was no violence.

Students : How did  you fight , then?

Gandhi:   We had to fight without weapons. Ehm….you call it now “passive  

                resistance”, don’t you?

Students : Did you easily get what you wanted?

Gandhi:    Oh surely, it wasn’t easy at all.  I was arrested several times but I still

                 preached   peace, non violence and freedom.

Students : When  did India  obtain  INDEPENDENCE?

 Gandhi: Mm….well, we got our freedom from Britain ..and it was on August 5^th

               1947, but there was not yet  peace in India.

Students: Why?

Gandhi:   Because the country was divided between Hindus and Muslims.

Students: What happened in 1948?

Gandhi:  Unfortunately I was shot to death, but I didn’t die in vain.

Students: Why  do you think you didn’t die in vain?

Gandhi:  I think I didn’t die in vain because many other men have followed my ideals of peace,  

                non    violence and freedom.  

 

 

                This  was  the end of a  great man ,whose universal ideals of freedom, non violence and tolerance are still a  model for those who fight for truth, justice and freedom.

 

CALLIGRAMMES :  there are things

     “ there are things for I’m ready for die, but there is nothingfor I’m ready to kill” 

“ You and me are an only one thing, I can’t hurt you without hurting me”

”How much the man is know any more he progress”

                                                                                                                     Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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