Iam mindful that only yesterday in birmingham, alabama,
our children, crying out for brotherhood, were answered
with fire hoses, snarling dogs and even death. i am mindful
that only yesterday in philadelphia, mississippi, young
people seeking to secure the right to vote were brutalized
and murdered. and only yesterday more than 40 houses of
worship in the state of mississippi alone were bombed or
burned because they offered a sanctuary to those who
would not accept segregation. i am mindful that
debilitating and grinding poverty afflicts my people and
chains them to the lowest rung of the economic ladder.
-martin luther king jr., nobel prize acceptance speech,
1964
why does king begin his nobel prize acceptance speech with examples of
recent racial violence in the united states?
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a. to show that the fight for freedom from oppression is not over
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b. to allow the committee to see all the work he has done
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c. to give the audience a chance to feel bad about the situation
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d. to explain why he feels he must refuse to accept this award

Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.