I+Have+a+Dream

I HAVE A DREAM! Excerpt 1 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 1] //Five score years ago, ... a shameful condition.//


 * OUR WORDS -** 100 years after Lincoln freed the slaves in the Emancipation Proclamation, blacks still aren't free.

Excerpt 2 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 2] //In a sense ... the security of justice.//


 * OUR WORDS -** The framers of the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and the 14th Amendment promised every person freedom, like a check. African Americans have not been able to redeem that check, but they know that there's sufficient money in the account.

Excerpt 3 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 3] //We have also come ... Now is the time.//

**OUR WORDS -** Action needs to be taken now.

Excerpt 4 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 4] //But there is something ... soul force.//


 * OUR WORDS -** We need to have peaceful protests and conduct ourselves with dignity

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS -** We've gotten this far and we can't go back. We must work together with white people.

Excerpt 6 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 6] //There are those ... like a mighty stream."//


 * OUR WORDS -** We are not satisfied and we won't be until we are totally free and equal.

Excerpt 7 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 7] //And so even though ... I have a dream today!//


 * OUR WORDS -** I have a dream that one day this country will be able to overcome racism and segregation and freedom and justice will live on.

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS -** One day, there will be no racism in this country and freedom will ring out from every mountainside.

<span style="color: rgb(194,15,15);"> <span style="color: rgb(194,15,15);">   AFTER **If we didn't get to it in class, watch [|16th Street] to see what happened right after the March.**

<span style="color: rgb(194,15,15);"> KING

**<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);">Read the essay from [|**TIME 100 - Martin Luther King**] **<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);">. As you do, respond to the following questions **Why does the author feel that whites owe King the greatest debt?** Because he freed the United States from the hyprocrisy of claiming to be a free nation when he fact we were deeply segregated. How could any other country take us seriously with segregation still in place?


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes, he was. The civil rights movement had been going on before him, but his leadership led to its culmination.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** Yes. He would not have wanted his words used by opponents of affirmative action.