At the time of his prime prosperity, Martin Luther King Jr had a dream that that was almost unobtainable for him and other African Americans. Right before Martin Luther King Jr's prime, the act Brown vs. the Board of Education, reviewing the decision made in Plessy vs. Fergusson that said separate but equal was fair, was brought up, saying that separate but equal was never actually legal and therefore school systems can not be segregated. Although this very powerful movement on non segregated schools was passed in 1954, African Americans still experienced extremely harsh racism and segregation. After researching more about Martin Luther King Jr's speech "The World House", King was still thought of as a peaceful protestor, but a new insight from research shared much more new information. With more research, my interpretation of the text was supported more, making me to believe that King was fighting for equality both economically and equality with all since he believes everyone in the world is a "family", no matter what race as well as to change everyone's way of thinking from a "thing"-oriented society to a "people"-oriented society (King).

Martin Luther King Jr. published this speech in 1967, right before he was assassinated. King was able to influence a large audience to follow him with the nonviolent sit ins he led or had others led; Greensboro Sit-Ins were extremely popular during the time. Mostly college students would go into establishments that were segregated and take a seat; while sitting, they would have cigarette buts thrown on them, coffee spilled on them and much worse. "The World House" was given to answer the main question of what is wrong with society, that causes the World to not be able to give all an equal World. King believes that the way in which the society can solve this problem is if it thinks as a whole and become a people oriented society- meaning that humans need to think more about others and each other as a whole in order to properly work, instead of having people think of just themselves. An analysis on King's speech supports this idea that the world needs to think as a whole, saying: "As King discerns and exposes each of our areas of self-deception, he urges us to recognize that we cannot pursue our individual goals while ignoring the well-being of others" ("Martin Luther King's The World House"). This analysis reveals that MLK believes that it's important to think of the "well-being of others" over humans thinking about themselves and only their own goals in life as well as their own thoughts, expanding my interpretation of "The World House" more by giving further support to his idea that King believes in order to have equality, the nation needs to think as a whole. 

Another major point that King spoke about in his speech was economic equality. Right before Martin Luther King Jr's death, he was working on the Poor People's Campaign, with several other civil rights leaders. Karin Kemp defined the Poor People's Campaign as: "The idea was for impoverished Americans across the nation to gather in Washington, DC and call on Congress to help them get jobs, health care, better housing and higher pay" (Kemp). King brings up many points in "The World House" about poverty. King believes that if it is possible to fix the economy with the poor African Americans, it will be possible to fix the worlds economy as a whole, saying: "a genuine program on the part of the wealthy nations to make prosperity a reality for the poor nations will in the final analysis enlarge the prosperity of all" (King). With the belief that nation will work better together with a stable economy, King also advocates the Marshall plan, which is able to exterminate global poverty, a living wage, and a certain minimum annual income for every American family. From reading Martin Luther King Jr's speech, one would be able to interpret that he believes that there should be economic equality, but from further research, one is able to find out that King went through many measures in order to make this possible.

As most people know, Martin Luther King Jr's major idea was that the best way to receive what a person wants is through non-violence measures. Martin Luther King Jr. was much less harsh when it came to the ways in which he pursued his motives to receive civil rights as compared to other civil rights leaders. When Barack Obama was being sworn into presidency, NPR News was looking back on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. when they brought up his "I Have a Dream" speech, specifically the quote: "I don't have but one message as I journey around this country, and it is a message which says that I am convinced that the most potent weapon available to oppressed people as they struggle for freedom and justice is the weapon of non-violence" ("Civil Rights March to Inauguration Day"). From further research, it is obvious that King preferred very little violence. This is also in the text though, MLK does bring up the idea that the best way for one to receive what he or she wants in life is through peace, specifically when he said in the speech "The World House": "it is not enough to say 'We must not wage a war.' It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the eradication of war but on the affirmation of peace" (King). Although Martin Luther King Jr brought up many points in the text "The World House" about how being peaceful is the best way to receive civil rights, from further research, it is clear the King is all for nonviolence movements. 

Lastly, Martin Luther King Jr brings the controversial point that the United States is influencing Western Territories to continue to use slavery. King leads to the point that the United States is being very hypocritical by saying that it has abolished slavery but the United States still 

buys imports from these foreign countries, therefore causing the United States to still, in a way, support slavery. During Kings speech "The World House", he begins to bring up this topic, saying: "In country after country we see white men building empires on the sweat and suffering of colored people. Portugal continues its practice of slave labor and subjugation in Angola; the Ian Smith government in Rhodesia continues to enjoy the support of British-based industry and private capitol, despite the stated opposition of the British Government policy" (King). Since King is saying that countries are continuing to use slave labor in their everyday life, he means that other countries are following the United States ways in the past- slavery- and not giving equal rights to everyone. 

Martin Luther King Jr argues many great points about civil rights in his speech "The World House". He argues that everyone should have economic equality and in order to do so, the United States needs to improve its poverty level, and King adds his input when he helped create the Marshall Plan as well as the Poor Peoples Plan in order to reduce the poverty level. He also argued that the world needed to think as a people orientated society- meaning that humans needed to think of others and incorporate everyone's ideas in order to receive full civil rights. Of course King also believed that nonviolence is the best way to receive what he wanted- civil rights. And lastly, King believed that the United States was the main reason that slavery was still going on because these other countries built their slave work on what the United States did. Without outside research, one would not know all that King went through and acts he pushed to gain civil rights for all. 

