How do paragraphs 3-4 develop the message of the speech?
A. The paragraphs explain the strength that is required to overcome a tragedy to make the listeners aware of the difficult future.
B. The paragraphs make an emotional plea to the audience to honor King's legacy by avoiding violence.
C. The paragraphs demonstrate that society cannot achieve racial equality unless everyone learns about why King died.
D. The paragraphs introduce the idea that political protest is dangerous to explain that America is in danger of riots.
In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it is perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in. For those of you who are black--considering the evidence there evidently is that there were white people who were responsible--you can be filled with bitterness, with hatred, and a desire for revenge. We can move in that direction as a country, in great polarization--black people amongst black, white people amongst white, filled with hatred toward one another.
Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and to replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand with compassion and love.