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


 * OUR WORDS - He is saying that even though we are a free nation, the black men and women are still treated like they are not equals and like they are not even humans. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation 100 years later nothing has really changed dramatically. Black men and women are not equals of the white men and women, and that needs to change.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - That it was said that black man and white men were to be treated equally in life liberty and pursuit of happiness. but it is not like that. He calls it a bad check. Like a bad check it bounced and didn't matter what so ever. It didn't help or change anything for better. The black men and women got written a a bad check.**

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

**OUR WORDS - He is saying its not another proclamation saying that it is better and will get better, but it is time to make it better and change and not just go along blindly, but to change it our selves and make it a equal nation. He is saying now it is there job to make it right and fair for the children of god now and children of god in the future.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - Even though it will be hard we have our spirits and each-other to keep us together and get each-other through it, which we can do if we stick together.**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS -That even though some of the white men and women have treated us badly. It is not all of them so we must not hate them or not trust them because many came to support and help us today.**

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


 * OUR WORDS -We will never be happy until segregation is over and we are all free and equal. We are powerful.**

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


 * OUR WORDS -He has a dream or thought were ever one is equal and white and black children can play together and black men and white men can talk. Were the world doesn't have segregation.**

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

//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS -It will be a new land where all the people can sing and mean the nations song, about freedom and equality.**

<span style="color: rgb(194, 15, 15);"> <span style="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="color: rgb(194, 15, 15);"> 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?** Because he had suffered through all of the segregation and stood up there and told the world what he thought. He was trying to make the nation a better place for the people and got killed for it.


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes, people believed in him and trusted him.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? **

<span style="color: rgb(194, 15, 15);"> 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.