MLK's+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 we were set free from slavery, but right now we still are getting the same treatment and we are getting no freedom. And that's why we are here.**

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


 * OUR WORDS -We have came to DC to come and get what we deserve. We have tried to get our freedom and rights but they are npt getting any rights or freedom.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We have came here to get this done now not in two years. Now is the time for pretty much everything.**

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


 * OUR WORDS -We want freedom but we should do it with hate or violence, we should do it the right way.**

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

//The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - We cannot hurt our white friends because some of them are here today and they are trying to help us to. We must work with blacks and whites.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We cannot be satisfied until we have freedom and we are getting the equal respect as the whites.**

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

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

**OUR WORDS - I have a dream that we will on day all be equal and that we can put all the stuff in the past and keep it there and we can have slaves kids and slaves owners kids sit next to each other.**

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

//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * 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?