What does kindness mean to you?

Mr Cotton is very kind because he helps me learn about computers.
Kindness is helping one another.

Exerpts from 'I Have a Dream'

Here are some of Martin Luther King's words from his famous 'I Have a Dream' speech. How do these words connect to the idea that kindness and caring cause change?

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

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.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day . . one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!

Martin Luther King Junior Day: A Kindness Hero

Hello Grade 3,
Monday, January 19th is Martin Luther King Junior Day in the United States. He is remembered on the third Monday every January because his birthday is January 15th, 1929. Reverend Martin Luther King Junior was a man who used kindness and caring to create positive change. Class 3C has been learning about Dr. King in the picture books Martin's Big Words and Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King! Dr. King wanted all people to have justice and freedom no matter what culture or colour of skin. In the 1960's he helped laws to be changed to allow all Americans to sit together on buses, eat together in restaurants and go to school together. Some people thought that African-Americans and white Americans should not be allowed to do these things together. In 1963, Martin Luther King made a very famous speech on his dream for peace and freedom for all people in his country. It was called the "I have a Dream" speech. How is Dr. King a hero who helped make change? What are some examples and ideas from the stories and your own ideas? How did he work together with others to make change?