Which phrase from Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream (Links to an external site.)” speech contains the strongest emotional connotations?
Group of answer choices

“the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty”

“the long night of their captivity”

“one hundred years later”

“and so we've come here today to dramatize”

The answer is A. "The Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty".

If you want the short I had the same question on my test.

If you want the long

By using this sentence, we are provided with vivid imagery of black American citizens being isolated from the rest of America due to their skin color and the poverty caused by their skin color.

Black American citizens were, at the time, and still sadly sometimes viewed the same today, as a low society. They were separated from white American citizens, deemed unfit and unqualified for proper work, thus many lived in poverty.

This served as a separation between white American citizens and black American citizens, thus it felt as if black people lived on a separate, lonely island accompanied by nothing only than poverty.

his humanity shines from every page as he bears witness to the tragedy which befell the jewish race at the hands of the nazis. wiesel was a romanian-born jew whose home town of sighet was occupied by the hungarians for most of the second world war. in may 1944, all the jews in the area were forced into cattle wagons and transported to auschwitz.