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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 -** Even though one hundred years ago Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to free all slaves, but we find ourselves still not free. Still, whites are thought of as more superior than blacks.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** They aren't getting the justice they deserve, and the United States is denying them their equality and freedom. The fourteenth amendment is not being enforced, and he calls them "insufficient funds." He says it's like being given a bad check.

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

**OUR WORDS -** Now we have to make a change. We need to take action, no gradual integration, we need to act now.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** We will not be violent. Violence will only cure our bitterness and hatred at the time, but later we will be guilty of wrongful deeds. We need to use soul force, which is like civil disobedience. Instead of using violence, we have to make a point doing whatever it takes to stand up for what is right.

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, and we must all work together. We should work with the other whites in the movement, because we are all bound together by this. We need to be forgiving and work together with no hatred or grudges.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** We can't give up. We can't just be satisfied with treatment that isn't fair. Until we all stand up for everything we can't just accept anything that is less than satisfactory or unfair. We won't be satisfied until we all have complete equality.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** I have a dream that one day people will actually follow the words of Lincoln about all men being created equal. I have a dream that one day slave and slave owners descendants will be able to forgive each other and work together. I have a dream that one day everyone will be able to have friends based on their character, not the color of their skin. I have a dream that things will stop being segregated.

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS -** Freedom should be for everyone every place, and when this happens more peace will come and people will be able to experience mixing together, no matter what the history is, but they can change what the future is yet to come. Especially in the south.

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**<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);">Read the essay from [|**TIME 100 - Martin Luther King**] **<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);">. As you do, respond to the following questions **Why does the author feel that whites owe King the greatest debt?** The author believes that whites owe King the greatest debt because "he liberated them from the burden of America's centuries-old hypocrisy about race". In other words King made them realize that even though the Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal the United States was being hypocritical in that way being that they don't truly believe that. King mad ethem r


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes, what was needed at the time was somebody who was nonviolent and could settle and resolve things peacefully. Martin Luther King did just this, he believed in civil disobedience and would show his strong emotions against segregation in a placid way.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** No, I believe King would not be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line. The part of his speech that consisted of "I have a dream.." was where he stopped saying what was planned and went out on a limb. This part of his speach best portrays his true emotions towards segregation and what he wished for in the future, since they weren't planned and he say saying what he felt at that moment.

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