Select two sentences from Paragraphs two and three that BEST support Dr. King’s idea that Abraham Lincoln’s attempts have not produced the intended results as it pertains to freedom. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.
It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.