The past is strewn with the ruins of the empires of tyranny, and each is a monument not merely to man’s blunders but to his capacity to overcome them … This is why I remain an optimist, though I am also a realist, about the barriers before us. “Man has the capacity to do right as well as wrong, and his history is a path upward, not downward. King’s optimism was based on his belief in the triumph of human history and the realization of social change in America based on confronting the ills of a flawed democracy: They fail, however, to perceive the sense of affirmation generated by the challenge of embracing struggle and surmounting obstacles.”
They expect these experiences to harden me into a grim and desperate man. They know how often I have been jailed, how frequently the days and nights have been filled with frustration and sorrow, how bitter and dangerous are my adversaries. “People are often surprised to learn that I am an optimist. But more important, he informs us how he remained such: In this essay, King reminds us that after all the pain and suffering he experienced, he was still an optimist. King’s death and presents a summary of his thoughts on the inter-related issues of the fight against racism, for equality, against war, for world peace and social progress. “A Testament of Hope” was published after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, we are reminded that his words continue to have profound meaning.
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