I+Have+a+Dream

Excerpt 1 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 1] //Five score years ago, ... a shameful condition.//
 * OUR WORDS - 100 years ago we were promised freedom by the Emancipation Proclamation and we still don't have it, that's why we are here. **

Excerpt 2 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 2] //In a sense ... the security of justice.//
 * OUR WORDS - We were promised a check of freedom by the Constitution and Declaration, but it bounced and now we our here to cash that check because we believe the bank of justice is not bankrupt. **

Excerpt 3 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 3] //We have also come ... Now is the time.//
 * OUR WORDS - We have to immediately open the doors to blacks for education, freedom, and justice. **

Excerpt 4 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 4] //But there is something ... soul force.//
 * OUR WORDS - We won freedom, but we should not use physical force, instead we must use soul force. **

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5]

//The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - We cannot stop trusting white people but some whites our here to help us, so we must work together and keep fighting. **

Excerpt 6 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 6] //There are those ... like a mighty stream."//
 * OUR WORDS - We cannot be satisfied if segregation is continued and we don't get our promised rights. We won't be satisfied until everyone is equal, not just on paper. **

Excerpt 7 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 7]

//And so even though ... I have a dream today!//

OUR WORDS **I have a dream that all men are created equal and we can all get along without judgement of our skin.**

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

//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - For America to become a great nation, freedom must ring everywhere. We are free at last! **

AFTER

**If we didn't get to it in class, watch [|16th Street] to see what happened right after the March.**

KING

** Read the essay from [|**TIME 100 - Martin Luther King**]**. As you do, respond to the following questions **Why does the author feel that whites owe King the greatest debt?** King freed whites from centuries-old racism.

**Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes, African Americas needed to be motivated to know what was happening was wrong and they needed to stick up for what is right. A great speech and a great speaker really showed that he was the right man in the right time.

Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? Yes, because King was using the line that was meant for the dream of equality to be soon and not just a day where something you dream happens.