English MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY Words with Alisha
Hi everybody, my name is Alisha, welcome
back to weekly words. Today we’re going
to be talking about another holiday, the
holiday for today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
So let’s get into it. Martin
Luther King Jr. Day, the first word of
course is Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
This day is celebrated on the third
Monday in every January and it’s used to
recognize a very important civil rights
leader Martin Luther King Jr., perhaps
you’ve heard of him. In a sentence
my school has the day off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Martin Luther
King Jr. Day is actually a national
holiday in the US so you might have the
day off work if you live in America, or
you might have the day off school
because of his holiday.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a
civil rights leader, he was very very
famous for his “I have a dream” speech. He
helped bring people together who wanted
to ensure equal rights for people
regardless of race. So in a sentence,
Have you ever seen Martin Luther King
Jr’s I have a dream speech?
Civil rights
the idea behind the civil rights
movement is that all people had certain
rights in their life so they should be
able to pursue the same goals in their
life, that was the point of the civil
rights movement, without being bound by
issues of race or gender or sexual
orientation, for example. So in a sentence,
let’s keep working towards realising
civil rights for all people.
non-violent protest
a non-violent protest means a protest which does not
use violence, or another way to say, it is
a peaceful protest. There were a lot of
non-violent protest you might have heard
of, a sit in protest, in these cases
members of the protest with simply for
example sit at a cafe or sit at a
restaurant and if asked to move would
not move so the phrase non-violent
protest is particularly related to
Martin Luther King jr. because he
advocated, he wanted to use the
non-violent protest style. There were
other people during this time who used
violent protests but Martin Luther King
jr. chose to encourage people to protest
non-violently so that’s why this is a
particularly important phrase on Martin
Luther King Junior Day. Martin Luther
King Jr. advocated for non-violent protests.
To assassinate
To assassinate
this is a verb you might know the word
to murder, or perhaps, to kill; but if a
famous person or a person, for example in
politics in the government a very very
significant person is killed
it’s called an assassination or we use
the verb to assassinate. Martin Luther
King Jr., as you may know, was
assassinated, and so that’s why this word
has particular relevance on this holiday.
So maybe one of the nuances are one of
the implications of the word assassinate
is that there’s a political nuances, there’s a
political reason why the person is
assassinated. So for example, in a sentence
Martin Luther King Jr. was
assassinated due to his role in the
civil rights movement. So he was a very
important figure in the movement and
there were people who oppose Martin
Luther King Jr. and his viewpoint in
his approach, as a result he was
assassinated. So those are some key
phrases and keywords that are related to
the holiday Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Thank you very much for joining us
for this episode of holiday words
and we’ll see you again. Bye!