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 - One hundred years ago the Emancipation Proclamation was made to free African Americans, but they are still not free. America didn't follow through with their promise.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - When the founding fathers wrote that all men were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and also the fourteenth amendment, they gave African Americans a bad check. They came to Washington to get a good one, because they know that the bank of liberty is not empty.**

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

**OUR WORDS - They need action to happen now, they need integration now.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - They must not be violent. They need to use soul force, from within. Civil disobedience.**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - We can't stop, we need to work together with whites. We can't hold a grudge against the white community.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We wont be satisfied until we are not abused by police, until we can all vote, until blacks are equal with whites. We wont be satisfied until there is justice. They need everything to be equal.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - And even in the face of all this blatant racism, I still have hope that we can be equal, even in Alabama and Mississippi.**

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - There should be freedom everywhere in the US, and once that happens, everyone will truly be free.**

<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?** He freed them from the centuries of hypocrisy about race. People can actually say that the US is the leader of the free world, without people commenting about the racial inequality.

Yes, because he had all the speaking skills of a preacher, and the courage of no ordinary man. His speaking skills lead to recognition by important leaders, and his courage let him stand up when people threatened him, not backing down.** ** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** He would not be, because it is being used to push forward things that were similar to King's goals.
 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?