I+Have+a+Dream+5.11.12

Excerpt 1 - //Five score years ago, ... a shameful condition.//


 * OUR WORDS - Abraham Lincoln set free many from slavery and gave them hope, but African Americans are still living in poverty and desolation. 100 years after Lincoln, African Americans are still not free.**

Excerpt 2 - //In a sense ... the security of justice.//


 * OUR WORDS - African Americans were promised freedom and they have not yet gotten it, they are going to get it now.**

Excerpt 3 - //We have also come ... Now is the time.//


 * OUR WORDS - Civil rights must be won now, now is the time for racial justice.**

Excerpt 4 - //But there is something ... soul force.//


 * OUR WORDS - We cannot be violent, we should not be guilty of winning our freedom violently.**

Excerpt 5 - //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - We cannot hate or distrust all white people because of the crimes of a few white people. We cannot give up on this dream. White freedom is directly tied to African American freedom.**

Excerpt 6 - //There are those ... like a mighty stream."//


 * OUR WORDS - We will not stop fighting for civil rights until we get full justice.**

Excerpt 7 - //And so even though ... I have a dream today!//


 * OUR WORDS - Someday whites and blacks will truly be equal and able to live in society together**

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?