MLK+dream 

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


 * OUR WORDS - Even 100 years ago after the Emancipation Proclamation we are still living in a segregated nation.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - He compares the segregation to a blank check that they are now coming in to cash. The Declaration and Constitution guarantees the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. America has broken it.**

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

**OUR WORDS - It has to happen now and not any other time, but now.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - I don't want us to get our freedom by hatred and violence. We have to be above physical force with soul force. We have to stay non-violent.**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - The army is now integrated. We can't hate all white people, because some of them are actually good. We have to work together with whites. Their freedom is linked to our freedom.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We can't ever be satisfied if everything is segregated. We demand for segregation, equality, and freedom.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - I have a dream that one day my children and my children's children will not live in segregation. I want grandchildren of former slaves and grandchildren of former slave owners will be able to sit down together.**

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

//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - We will one day be truly free. Let freedom ring from all over!**

<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 believes that the whites owe him for liberating them from difficulty of America's "racism". It is only because he feels that the U.S. should realize that we should be a free nation. He took the nation into a new level, combining the a part of the nation to fight for the same reasons.**


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?**
 * Yes, because he believed that for them to gain their freedom they would have to come together with whites and he also believed in not being violent. His house was bombed with his family inside, he had many death threats, and the FBI would bug his phone calls and hotel rooms. There was also bad rumors about him and he still kept his head high and kept trying his hardest to succeed. He was definately the right man.**

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? The quoted line has been used in many ways that he would have never approved of. It has become quote for opponents of affirmative action. This is not the meaning that King wanted the U.S. to interpret his quote into. It's almost the complete apposite. **