I+Have+a+Dream

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


 * OUR WORDS - Abraham Lincoln singed the Emancipation Proclomation to set slaves free, but 100 years later African Americans are still not completly free.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - The constitution guarantees ALL men life, liberity, and the pursuit of happiness, but that has not been given to African Americans.**

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

**OUR WORDS - Now is the time to change, giving equal oppertunities to everyone.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We must do all that is in our power to achieve this goal in a peaceful manner.**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5]  //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - All races need to work together to achieve this goal.**

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


 * OUR WORDS -**We cannot be satisfied unitl we have reached equailty.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** I have a dream that the future will hold equality.

Excerpt 8 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 8] 

//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - When all races and religions are viewed equally we will be free at last.**

<span style="color: rgb(194, 15, 15); font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 140%;"> <span style="color: rgb(194, 15, 15); font-family: 'Arial Black';">AFTER **If we didn't get to it in class, watch [|16th Street] to see what happened right after the March.**

<span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(194, 15, 15); font-family: 'Arial Black';">KING

** Read the essay from [|**TIME 100 - Martin Luther King**] ** <span style="font-family: Arial; 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?** The author feels that the whites owe King for freeing them from the centuries old burden of racism and segregation. ** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? King would be upset about what his most quoted line has come to represent. He believed in peace, and movements that are against peace have taken his words as a slogan. People believe that they are continuing to support King's beliefs, but in truth, they are not. **
 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes, he was, because the Civil Rights Movement was on its way and needed a leader and King stepped up to the plate. He led the people in an affective way and helped the movement succeed.