SEC 1
4. The check is for basic human rights. The "check" is insufficient because they are still unable to have the rights everyone is granted at birth. In a way the government is failing them like a person fails to add cash to a check.
SEC 2
1. This can't be a gradual movement because it has already taken a long time and it is a pretty urgent matter.
2. He reminds his people not to act in violence because it is not who they are and treating someone poorly because they treat you poorly is not worth it.
3. Dr. King realizes the matter and its importance but he also understands it's not every white person's fault. He doesn't want them to act in the manner others treat them.
SEC 3
1. They are "unsatisfied" enduring police brutality, heavy fatigue from travel, and the inability to stay at hotels/motels all due to their skin color. They cannot be satisfied as their children are stripped of their selfhood and the inability to vote all due to the heritage they didn't choose.
2. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream Speech"
3. King says a change will happen eventually and not to fall into the trap they are expected to
4. The Declaration of Independence
SEC 4
1. Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama
2. "sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."
"the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of
freedom and justice"
"my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not
be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"
"in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. "
SEC 5
1. The song is sung without the thought that some are still struggling to have basic rights, he wants people to think of that when they sing the song. He hopes in the future everyone will have rights and be able to sing it together.
