MLK+Dream

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


 * OUR WORDS - 100 years ago Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that set slaves free. But today, we are still not free and there is still segregation, we live under a nation of discrimination.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - With the signing of the Declaration of Independence we were supposed to be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness but America has broken this promise. Instead of honoring it they have shamed it and we still have hope that justice and freedom will be given to us.**

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

**OUR WORDS - This needs to happen now.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We cant use violence when we fight for freedom. We have to have dignity.**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - The army isn't integrated and we have to work together with whites because their freedom is linked with ours.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We can't be satisfied if we are being treated worse than whites. Beatings, fatigue and brutality will not satisfy us. When ours demands, freedom and desegregation, are met we will be satisfied.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - i have a dream, like the American dream, that we, blacks, and whites will one day be able to have peace. I have a dream of freedom and justice. People should not be judged by the color of their skin.**

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

//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - We need freedom to spread 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?** "whites may owe him the greatest debt, for liberating them from the burden of America's centuries-old hypocrisy about race"


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** He was the right man at the right time. He led the nation to sucess. "It is impossible to think of the movement unfolding as it did without him at its helm."

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** Yes, because it is being put to use where it shouldn't."I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"—has been put to uses he would never have endorsed"