ihaveadream

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

100 years ago Lincon signed the Emancipation Proclamation. He did this to free the slaves and make their lifes better. Today we are still held back by segragtion.
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Excerpt 2 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 2] //In a sense ... the security of justice.//

When the D.O.I. was signed they promised the same thing to all men and women of all color. Up untill today they have not kept that promise and today we will make them start that promise. **
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Excerpt 3 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 3] //We have also come ... Now is the time.//

**OUR WORDS - We have come here to make sure that we show our true "colors" ** so that everyone hears us.

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

We can't hate and be violent. We can't be physicaly forceful. **
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Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.// We must trust whites. Some whites belive in what we say and know that segragation wrong. Some whites will stand with us. **
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Excerpt 6 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 6] //There are those ... like a mighty stream."//

Their are some people who ask "why keep going?". We are not happy with African Americans being 2nd class citizens and are treated like dirt. **
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Excerpt 7 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 7] //And so even though ... I have a dream today!//


 * OUR WORDS -** I still belive that we are people and the U.S.A. and will be treated as equals. I belive that blacks and whites will overcome their segragation and racist belifes and will see us for who we truly are.

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!// This is the day that the nation will change and will change everywhere for equality and we will be truly free.
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<span style="color: rgb(194, 15, 15); font-family: 'Arial Black';"><span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(194, 15, 15); font-family: 'Arial Black';"> AFTER **If we didn't get to it in class, watch [|16th Street] to see what happened right after the March.**

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

**<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?** He changed the way that whites see blacks and relived them of the suffering they caused everyone. ** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** Yes and No. When people use the line for things that are for showing equality, yes. When they use it to endorse "evil" things then no.
 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes, he allowed all people of color to have the same privledges that whites have.