I+have+a+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 - 100 years ago slavery was being abolished. Although it was abolished negros were still being oppressed.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - The people that formed the country said that all men black and white will have the same unalienable rights. In his analogy he is saying that the white people are refusing to give them there rights and the insufficient funds gives them their rights.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - They have come there to rise and make equality NOW!**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We have to defeat physical force by peaceful force to gain equality**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - Don't think that all white people are bad. Some people are here to help us fight for our freedom. We cannot walk alone and everyone has to help the movement. White and blacks must work together**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We cannot be satisfied with only a little bit more freedom. We will only be satisfied if everyone is equal and if every gets the same amount of justice. We will only be satisfied if we are treated equal on paper and between people. This has to happen.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - He has a dream that even the most oppressing states will treat everyone equally and that former slave owners and former slaves can be equal. He has a dream some what like the founding fathers of the free nation we have today.**

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

//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS -If America wants to become a great nation then it has to treat everyone equally. Let freedom ring throughout the whole United States**

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?** Because it freed them from their racist and unequal and sometimes slave owning past and heritage.


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** **Yes because he was the first one who had started the big movements and hit the segregationists where it hurts most and that is turning the whites against them too**

Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? No, because the line is mostly used for companies and organizations that are fighting for freedom just as he did and people say that he would be fighting along side with them