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 - 100 years after we were emancipated the black people are still not free.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - By not honoring the U.S. promise to the black people it is like they bounced a check and broke a promise. But we still think there is hope and we will keep going until we get our rights.**

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

**OUR WORDS - We have waited long enough and now is the time for us to go after our civil rights and get them once and for all.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We cannot hold our struggle against the white people and cannot hold hate against them. We have to stay away from violence and use only our soul to obtain our goal.**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - We can't hold it against all white people. We must recognize the ones who side with us and help our struggle.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We can't settle for anything less than what we deserve. We have to go all the way with our civil rights.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - I dream of a country where all men are created equal and that people will be able to live in harmony and peace with equality.**

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - Let all of America become free for every person of every background.**

<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.** 16th street is the street that a church was on where the KKK put a bomb next to because the church was part of the Civil Rights Movement. The attack was not specifically directed at anyone, but it did end up killing four young black girls who were all in the basement of the church.

<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?** The author feels that whites owe King the greatest debt because he liberated them from America's 100 year hypocrisy about races.
 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** King was "the right man at the right time" because of how he was a preacher and was in touch with the black people within the black church, at that time, the strongest independent black institution. Also, he had a strong belief in nonviolence that never swerved. Lastly, not even threats against his life could sway him from fighting for righteousness.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** King would not be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line because the quote is being used to protest things that are benefiting groups of people, such as Ward Connerly and his fight against affirmative action.