I+Have+a+Dream

I HAVE A DREAM! Excerpt 1 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 1]
 * OUR WORDS -** 100 years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, the Black man is still not free. He still suffers from injustice and cruelty.

Excerpt 2 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 2]
 * OUR WORDS -** African Americans were treated like a bad check: promised things that would not come true. The 14th Amendment is a bad check because it should guarantee equal rights but it doesn't.

Excerpt 3 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 3] **OUR WORDS -** Action must be taken now to stop inequality.

Excerpt 4 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 4]
 * OUR WORDS -** Meet physical violence with "Soul Force", the force from within.

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt] **OUR WORDS -** We have to move forward

 Excerpt 6 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 6]
 * OUR WORDS -** We will never be satisfied until segregration is over and we are all equal/free.

 Excerpt 7 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 7]
 * OUR WORDS -** Things should be at the best and equal as nothing were bad before, people love each other.

 Excerpt 8 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 8]   **OUR WORDS -** When freedom is achieved, then everybody can say our country is free and let it ring throughout the country.

<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?** For liberating them from the burden of America's centuries-old hypocrisy about race.
 * Was King "the right man at the right time?** He was. He brought positive attention to the civil rights movement due to his "Civil Disobedience" and pushed Kennedy for the Civil Rights Act.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** I don't believe so. He should be flattered and honored that people used it today in respect of what he has done for our country; made it free. When ever "I Have a Dream" is used, it is meaning that that person, as well, wants something to be done about inequality or injustice.