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.//


 * OUR WORDS - A hundred years ago, Abraham Lincoln promised us freedom. Even now, we have not secured that freedom. The negro is still in the corners of American society.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We came here to guarantee our freedom. We were told long ago that we would be free. We refuse to believe that this freedom cannot come. That is why we are here.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We have come here to remind America that the times is now. The changes cannot happen gradually, but that now is the time.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We must not gain our freedom by violence or sin. We must not satisfy our hunger through bitterness. We must rise above our concerns and we need non-violence.**

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

//The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - We must not have a distrust of all white people. We must not be alone, we shall continue, we cannot turn back.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We will never be satisfied, as long as everything is segregated. We cannot ever be satisfied in anything unless justice comes.**

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

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

**OUR WORDS - Even though there are problems, I have a dream. I have a dream that one day everybody will be equal. I have a dream that we shall no longer suffer from this oppression, I have a dream!**

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

//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - This will be the day that we are proud of our country. I have a dream that all over the country, we will be free! When this happens, freedom will ring from every village! We shall be 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 the burden of segregation and racism, which will help whites in the long run.

**Was King "the right man at the right time"?** MLK was definitely the right man at the right time. With all of the people there to listen to him, his amazing speech influenced thousands of people.

Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? I do not think that King would be upset with his quoted line because during that part of his speech he was the most "into" it.