“With this new sense of self-respect and new sense of dignity, a new Negro emerged.”
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Source: Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965)
About this quote
In Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965), King uses a focused ethical claim to examine self awareness, with attention to sense, respect, dignity. The practical center is the relationship between wisdom and negro and emerged, giving readers a specific lens for judgment and action.
When to use it
- A community organizer builds a meeting around sense before participants choose one measurable action related to self awareness.
- A teacher pairs the passage from Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965) with a primary-source exercise about wisdom and public responsibility.
- A team leader uses the tension between respect and emerged to discuss conduct under pressure.