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I HAVE A DREAM!



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

100 years ago we signed the emancipation proclamation, providing hope to many African Americans. 100 years later African Americans suffer from a new type of slavery, still destroying them in the same emotional and physical way.
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Excerpt 2 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 2]  //In a sense ... the security of justice.//

While creating the constitution America promised of freedom for all, equality for all and liberty for all. To this day this is not the case. America has not been faire to all and we must change that for everyone.
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Excerpt 3 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 3]  //We have also come ... Now is the time.//

**OUR WORDS -** We have all gathered here today to change America, today is the day that things will be different for ever.

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

To change we must not use violence or hatred, but peaceful protests.
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Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5]  //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.// All whites are not bad. Some whites have realised that blacks are equal to whites and that it is time for a change!
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Excerpt 6 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 6]  //There are those ... like a mighty stream."//

African Americans will not be pleased until segregation is over and they are treated with respect.
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Excerpt 7 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 7]  //And so even though ... I have a dream today!//


 * OUR WORDS -** I believe that someday people will be treated equaly and that racial feelings will be put aside in order for America to prosper.

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!// All of America will be free.
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<span style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(194, 15, 15); font-size: 140%;"> <span style="font-family: Arial Black; 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="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(194, 15, 15); font-size: 140%;">KING

**<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Read the essay from [|**TIME 100 - Martin Luther King**] ** <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial;">. As you do, respond to the following questions **Why does the author feel that whites owe King the greatest debt?** The Author feels that King was the main man in the civil rights movement. Without him America would be different, he was an influential man who changed the views of white and black Americans. He convinced citizens to say that enough was enough and something had to be done to gain equality for all.


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes king was the right man at the right time. He was an individual who masted the arts of manipulation and persuasion. Both are important qualities in a person. The civil Rights movement occurred after WWII, which definitely was good timing.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** He would be honored that people respect him so much that they quote him, as long as the quote fits properly with the context.