I+Have+a+Dream

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

One hundred years ago, the nation was a in a shameful condition. Then the Emancipation was signed.... it was suppose to give us our freedom. On paper, African Americans were free but we never truly were.**
 * OUR WORDS -

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


 * OUR WORDS - All men, blacks and white were promised the unalienable rights by the government. The government has written us a check- a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds". The bank of justice is not bankrupt... we still can get what we want out of it.**

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

**OUR WORDS - We have to get what was promised to us and what we deserve now.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We most protest peacefully and not result to violence. We must we physical force with soul force.**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.// 
 * OUR WORDS - We cant walk alone or fight by ourselves. We have to work with whites. They are tied to us. We cannot walk alone. When we march, we shall always march ahead and not turn back.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We will not be satisfied as long as the negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality... we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. We will be satisfied when we are completely free.**

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 we will be free. "We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal" will actually mean something for african americans.**

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS -**

<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?**


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?**

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? **