ihaveadream

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


 * OUR WORDS -** Though the emancipation proclamation was signed 100 years ago (5 score), African Americans are still discriminated against to this day. America has not kept its promises.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** When the Constitution and Declaration declared equal rights for all people in America no matter what race. America isn't following the Declaration.

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

**OUR WORDS -** Action needs to be taken now.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** We must not be violent in our actions. We must use soul force, which comes from the soul & not from the fist.

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5]  //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS -** We can't hold grudges against whites, we must work together with them with peace.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** Until we gain complete equality, we won't stop fighting for our rights. We won't be satisfied.

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


 * OUR WORDS - I hope that America can change, I have a dream that all people can accept each other and gain equality.**

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS -** We are free

<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
 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes. He spoke according to the Bible, their main goal was freedom and can be traced back to the Old Testement.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not ** I think he would be happy to know that his quote is being used by people who share his views.

<span style="font-family: Arial Black; color: rgb(194, 15, 15); font-size: 140%;">MEMORIALS

There are many memorials to King around the United States, and there will soon be a new one in Washington D.C.! Check out some of the links below, and look at the video of the new National Memorial.


 * || [|Washington, DC, **Martin Luther King** Jr. National **Memorial**]

[|The King Center]

[|**Martin Luther King** Jr National Historic Site]

[|Some King historical sites from Taft's travels] [|Some King historical video from Taft's travels] ||