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 - He is saying that as 100 years ago when the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address were told, blacks are still being treated bad. African American's still, after 100 years, are not being treated like they should be.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - When the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed, they included the security and freedom of blacks and whites together. There is still time to fix this problem, by giving African Americans the right to freedom and security of justice.**

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

**OUR WORDS - The USA needs to rise from segregation to racial equality.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - Do not protest violently, the heart and soul is stronger than fists and guns.**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - Whites are finally realizing that the freedom of whites is tied with the freedom of blacks. There are now whites supporting us and we need them to help us. Whites and blacks have to work together.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - Blacks are not satisfied with what they have now. African Americans will not and are not satisfied until they earn their freedom and can support themselves. They cannot be satisfied by segregation and racism, blacks and whites need to be joined together.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - There is hope that one day the nation will be desegregated and all men will be equal and treated the same. There is hope that people will get along together.**

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - He is saying on that day, when freedom rings everywhere and segregation no longer exists, every person in America, regardless of religion, color of skin, etc. will be free at last. He also states that in order for America to become a great nation, everyone must be free, and freedom must 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?** Because King "<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">liberated them from the burden of America's centuries-old hypocrisy about race." If King would've failed, the USA's super power status would suffer as well. ** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** Yes, becasue people are beginning to use the slogan for opponents of affirmative action
 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** I, as well as the author, do think he was the right man at the right time. He had an incredible amount of courage and he had a way of encouraging people to keep fighting for their freedom, possibly from being a minister. His physical courage played a gigantic role in the fight. I know that if I were in his spot I probably would've given up after a couple of threats. He was threatened thousands of times, but he fought through it. His house was even blown up, but he continued to fight for black freedom. I don't know many people, if any, that have that kind of courage.

<span style="color: rgb(194,15,15);"> MEMORIALS

There are many memorials to King around the United States, and there will soon be a new one in Washington D.C.! Check out some of the links below, and look at the video of the new National Memorial.


 * || [|Washington, DC, **Martin Luther King** Jr. National **Memorial**]

[|The King Center]

[|**Martin Luther King** Jr National Historic Site]

[|Some King historical sites from Taft's travels] [|Some King historical video from Taft's travels] ||