MLKs+Dream

I HAVE A DREAM! Cut and paste this information into a new page on your Unit 8 Online Notebook.

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

Dr. King is saying that after five score years ago all men are still not equal. Five score years ago the emancipation proclamation said that we were promised freedom and we were still not gained freedom. And that's the reason why everybody is there.
 * OUR WORDS -**

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

America has promised freedom and they didn't have it in their bank account. So they didn't fulfill that promise. Their there to cash that check.
 * OUR WORDS -**

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

We've been putting up with the racial segregation for a hundred years, and now is the time to stop it.
 * OUR WORDS -**

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

Instead of being physical and violent we should use our words and be peaceful or "soul force".
 * OUR WORDS -**

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

//The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.// The white people are helping and are the "new military". We should not slow down, but only speed up and always walk ahead. Their freedom is tied to our freedom. We need to work together.
 * OUR WORDS -**

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

We can never be satisfied until we are free. We will not stop until there's justice. Not on paper in reality.
 * OUR WORDS -**

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. Everyone will be friends black and white. No one will 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!// Their will be freedom everywhere. This dream will come true.
 * OUR WORDS -**

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?**

**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?