King says, "this note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be granted the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness- and " my country tis of thee and if America is to be a great nation, this must become true- (p40,41). ... The metaphor of despair as a mountain and finding a single stone, hope being this stone, gives the reader the sense of how exhausting, painful, demanding, and awesome achieving freedom would be. ... King uses the words we' and our' when he means to address his audience, classifying himself as a common Afr...

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Right of nature: self-preservation ("seek peace and follow it") - Man is naturally in a state of war without a common power to keep everyone in check. ... XVII Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of Commonwealth - Hobbes concludes that there must be some common power, some sovereign authority, to force people to uphold the contract. ... - as if every man should say to every man, "I Authorize and give up my Right of Governing my selfe, to this Man, or to this Assembly of men, on this condition, that thou give up the right to him, and authorize all his actions in like matter - This ...

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