I+Have+a+Dream

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


 * OUR WORDS -** African Americans are still not free since Lincoln freed them from slavery

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


 * OUR WORDS -** The United States has not given African Americans what they promised them. They treat African Americans like bad checks and the check is the 14 amendment.

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

**OUR WORDS -** Now is the time for change. Action must be taken NOW

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


 * OUR WORDS -** We must rise and accomplish this goal peacefully. NOT with hate and violence. Meet physical force with sole force.

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS -** We have to move forward working with the whites. We have gotten this far and we cannot go back.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** We will never be satisfied until segregation is totally over and we are totally free.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** I have a dream that everyone will be treated equally and that blacks and whites can join together.

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS -** Everybody should be proud to be an american and be equal, Let freedom ring everywhere.

<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?** Jack White believes that whites owe king the most because "whites may owe him the greatest debt, for liberating them from the burden of America's centuries-old hypocrisy about race." in other words king helped us berid of our non-sensicle belief of supioriority over the black race.


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes because with out him, the civil rights movement would not have pulled together like it did under kings genius.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** No because people are using his quotes to further their own careers and lives and not using it in the context that it was meant to be used.