Monday, 27 February 2012

Born with rights

"I have a dream that my four little 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."
When Martin Luther King said out these words in 28th August 1963, he knew what he did would certainly be a monument on human's way to equal rights. History proved that he is just like a spark that lit up the fire of hope,leading Afamerican to fight for their rights.
Everyone is born with rights including right to speak freely, right to be treated equally and so on. I am glad that I was born in urban city, so I can easily enjoy my own basic rights such as the right to be well educated, the right to use advanced facilities etc. But ironically, nowadays, there are still many people who cannot even have the most basic rights. People who live in the rural area, as an example, reflects this cruel reality. Those poor people don't have the chance to acquire education as urban people, they don't have opportunity to share public facilities with urban people, their hardship cannot be seen, their asking for help cannot be heard. They should have equal rights as urban citizens. Sadly, the truth is they don't. There is no reason for us to stand by and act as we are blind or deaf. Actions need to be taken to fill the gap between rural area and urban area.
As we benefit from our right, we also have obligation to let more people benefit from it; because we are not supposed to take these advantages as granted, but responsibility. People share the earth, they share the sun, they also have right to share the same rights.

2 comments:

  1. I like your last sentence. It's true that almost everything we enjoy should be shared among other people. Humans are born equal, and we should fight for our rights, as well as others'.

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  2. "All humans are born equal"
    However, If there exists the poor, there will exists the unfairness. We are not in Utopia, but if everybody can respect others, help others, the world will become the Utopia.

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