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to live in?” I would take my mental flight by I would even come up to the day of the 5
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Egypt and I would watch God’s children in their Renaissance, and get a quick picture of all that the
magnificent trek from the dark dungeons of Renaissance did for the cultural and aesthetic life
Egypt through, or rather across the Red Sea, of man. But I wouldn’t stop there.
through the wilderness on toward the promised I would even go by the way that the man for
land. And in spite of its magnificence, I wouldn’t whom I am named had his habitat. And I would
stop there. watch Martin Luther as he tacked his ninety-five
I would move on by Greece and take my theses on the door at the church of Wittenberg.
Changing the World
mind to Mount Olympus. And I would see Plato, But I wouldn’t stop there.
Aristotle, Socrates, Euripides and Aristophanes I would come on up even to 1863, and watch
assembled around the Parthenon. And I would a vacillating President by the name of Abraham
watch them around the Parthenon as they Lincoln finally come to the conclusion that he
discussed the great and eternal issues of reality. had to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. But
But I wouldn’t stop there. I wouldn’t stop there.
I would go on, even to the great heyday of I would even come up to the early thirties,
the Roman Empire. And I would see and see a man grappling with the problems of
developments around there, through various the bankruptcy of his nation. And come with an
emperors and leaders. But I wouldn’t stop eloquent cry that we have nothing to fear but
there. “fear itself.” But I wouldn’t stop there.

Joe Heller/Cagle Cartoons, Inc.

This political cartoon by Joe Heller of the Green Bay Press-Gazette depicts the Stone of Hope statue at
the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C., along with one of King’s quotations.
Choose a quotation from this speech that would be a suitable replacement for the one in this
cartoon. Explain why you chose the quotation you did, and how it works with the image in the
cartoon to capture King’s legacy.

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