NICK NEWS WITH LINDA ELLERBEE
BEYOND "I HAVE A DREAM"
Aired Feb. 13, 2011

The following students were selected to be interviewed for an episode of "Nick News with Linda Ellerbeee" which aired February 13, 2011.

This is the 25th anniversary of the Martin Luther King holiday so the students were to reflect on the quotes shown below and respond to the one that spoke to them.
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and said he had a dream of racial equality. That speech became a major part of American history, as did the man himself. January, 2011, marks the 25th year we've celebrated his birth as a national holiday.
But Dr. King had more than one dream - and his messages went well beyond a plea for racial equality. He was speaking to and on behalf of all of us. And although much of what he said during his life still resonates today, what kids tell us, what they're mostly taught - and often all they know - is that he was the "I have a dream" guy.

Each segment begins with a student reading some words of Dr. King that do not come from that speech, aren't directly connected to segregation, and may be completely new to kids. Following that, we see how those words affect them even today. In most cases, a story will illustrate the point. Some will be very short. Some will not.

AND JUSTICE FOR ALL
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

POVERTY
"There is nothing new about poverty. What is new is that we now have the techniques and the resources to get rid of poverty. The real question is whether we have the will."

SERVICE
"Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?"

NON-VIOLENT ACTIVISM
"If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness."

LOVE
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

ADDITIONAL QUOTES
"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people, but the silence over that by the good people."
"A right delayed is a right denied."
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
"There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."