I always made clear to students that the famous “I have a dream” line doesn’t show up until the fourth page of the text. Everything before it was a recitation of government bad faith. Then, in true prophetic form, it turns from the extant reality to an imagining of when the injustice had been resolved.
“A Check Returned for Insufficient Funds”.
I always made clear to students that the famous “I have a dream” line doesn’t show up until the fourth page of the text. Everything before it was a recitation of government bad faith. Then, in true prophetic form, it turns from the extant reality to an imagining of when the injustice had been resolved.
I love how you show the dream was a crescendo that King built to, rather than the majority of is address.
Thanks, Jemar!
Not a title but “the tranquillizing drug of gradualness” !!!!!
Those few words speak VOLUMES!
The riches of freedom and the security of justice. That’s a line that’ll stick with me for a while-“gripping my heart and hounding my soul.”
We think of King as merely "quotable" but even his prose flowed like poetry.