Sunday, May 13, 2007

Martin Luther King JR Questions

Why does the author feel that whites owe King the greatest debt? The author feels that whited owe King the greatest debt because he liberated them from racism. He made it so that the US can rightfully call themself the "leader of the free world".
Was King "the right man at the right time"? Yes, the Civil Rights movement needed a strong leader and he was the one.
Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? No because it is being used for things he would never have endorsed. This is because the people using this quote have "filtered out his radicalism and sense of urgency" It is now being used to calmly, not at all how he intended it to be.

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