Which statement from Governor George Wallace's inaugural address best serves as conflicting evidence for King's statement?
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Read the excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "The American Dream" speech.
"America is essentially a dream, a dream as yet unfulfilled. It is a dream of a land where men of all races, of all nationalities and of all creeds can live together as brothers.."
Now read the excerpt from Governor George Wallace's inaugural address.
"And so it was meant in our political lives . . . whether Republican, Democrat, Prohibition, or whatever political party . . . each striving from his separate political station . . . respecting the rights of others to be separate and work from within their political framework . . . and each separate political station making its contribution to our lives. . . .And so it was meant in our racial lives . . . each race, within its own framework has the freedom to teach . . . to instruct . . . to develop . . . to ask for and receive deserved help from others of separate racial stations".
Which statement from Governor George Wallace's inaugural address best serves as conflicting evidence for King's statement?
1)Bless all the people of this great sovereign State and nation, both white and black.
2)To realize our ambitions and to bring to fruition our dreams, we as Alabamians must take cognizance of the world about us.
3)The true brotherhood of America, of respecting the separateness of others . . . and uniting in effort . . . has been so twisted and distorted.
4)In united effort we were meant to live under this government.
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ANS: 3) The true brotherhood of America, of respecting the separateness of others . . . and uniting in effort . . . has been so twisted and distorted.
Explanation:
- George Wallace, who was the Governor of Alabama, is best remembered for his staunch populist and segregationist views. Wallace vehemently opposed desegregation proclaiming in his 1963 inaugural address that he stood for "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever".
- In 1963, April Martin Luther King went to Birmingham, Alabama, a city where public facilities were segregated for whites and blacks. King envisioned to force the desegregation of lunch counters in city center shops through a non-violent protest.
'Each separate political station making its contribution to our lives' is the statement from the inaugural address of Governor George Wallace that best serves as conflicting evidence for King's statement.
Explanation:
- The above statement most appropriately contradicts the speaker's statement that 'no individual or nation can live alone.'
- It opposes the author's collectivist approach when he admires the individual contribution to people's lives.
- Thus, when the author says that 'each political station has its own part to play', it functions not only negate the previous collectivist claim but also serves as a conflicting evidence to his statement.
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