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I want to ask you a question, and that is, what is in your life's blueprint?
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I want to ask you a question, and that is, what is in your life's blueprint?
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This is the most important and crucial period of your lives, for what you do now and what you
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decide now at this age may well determine which way your life shall go.
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And whenever a building is constructed, you usually have an architect who draws a blueprint.
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And that blueprint serves as the pattern, as the guide, as the model for those who are to build the building.
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And a building is not well erected without a good sound and solid blueprint.
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Now each of you is in the process of building the structure of your lives.
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And the question is whether you have a proper, a solid, and a sound blueprint.
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And I want to suggest some of the things that should be in your life's blueprint.
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Number one in your life's blueprint should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your own worth, and your own somebodiness.
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Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you are nobody.
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Always feel that you count.
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Always feel that you have worth.
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And always feel that your life has ultimate significance.
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Now that means that you should not be ashamed of your color.
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You know it's very unfortunate that in so many instances our society has placed a stigma on the Negroes color.
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You know there are some Negroes who are ashamed of themselves.
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Don't be ashamed of your color.
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Don't be ashamed of your biological features.
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Somehow you must be able to say in your own lives and really believe it, I am black but beautiful.
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And therefore you need not be lured into purchasing cosmetics, advertised to make you lighter.
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Neither do you need to process your hair to make it appear straight.
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I have good hair and it is as good as anybody else's hair in the world.
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And we've got to believe that.
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Now in your life's blueprint, be sure that you have that a principle of somebody.
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Secondly, in your life's blueprint, you must have as a basic principle, the determination to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor.
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You're going to be deciding as the days and the years unfold what you will do in life, your life's work will be.
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And once you discover what it will be, set out to do it and to do it well.
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And I say to you, my young friends, that doors are opening to each of you.
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Doors of opportunity are opening to each of you that were not open to your mothers and to your fathers.
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And the great challenge facing you is to be ready to enter these doors as they open.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great essayist, said in a lecture back in 1871 that if a man can write a better book or preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor,
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even if he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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That hadn't always been true, but it will become increasingly true.
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So I would urge you to study hard, to burn the midnight ore.
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I would say to you, don't drop out of school.
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And I understand all of the sociological reason why we often drop out of school.
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But I urge you, in spite of your economic plight, In spite of the situation that you are forced to live so often with intolerable conditions, stay in school.
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And when you discover what you're going to be in life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it.
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And just don't set out to do a good Negro job, but do a good job that anybody could do.
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Don't set out to be just a good Negro doctor, a good Negro lawyer, a good Negro school teacher, a good Negro preacher, a good Negro barber, a beautician, a good Negro skilled laborer,
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sent out to do a good job and do that job so well that the living, the dead, or the unborn couldn't do it any better.
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If it followed your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music,
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Sweep streets like Liam T.
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Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera.
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Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry.
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Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job where?
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If you can't be a pine on the top of a hill, be a scrub in the valley.
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But be the best little scrub on the side of the rill.
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Be a bush if you can't be a tree.
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If you can't be a highway, just be a trail.
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If you can't be the sun, be a star.
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What isn't by size that you win or you fail, be the best of whatever you are.
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And finally in your life's blueprint, must be a commitment to the eternal principles of beauty, love, and justice.
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Don't allow anybody to pull you so low as to make you hate them.
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Don't allow anybody to cause you to lose your self-respect to the point that you do not struggle for justice.
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However young you are, you have a responsibility to seek to make your nation a better nation in which to live.
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You have a responsibility to seek to make life better for everybody.
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And so you must be involved in the struggle for freedom and justice.
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Now in this struggle for freedom and justice, there are many constructive things that
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we all can do and that we all must do and we must not give
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ourselves to those things which will not solve our problems you've heard the word
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nonviolent and you've heard the word violent I happen to believe in non-violence we struggle with this
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method with young people and adults alike all over the South and we have won some significant victories and we've got
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to struggle with it all over the north because the problems are as serious in the north as they are in the South.
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But I believe as we struggle with these problems, we've got to struggle with them with a method that can be militant, but at the same time does not destroy life or property.
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And so our slogan must not be burn, baby, burn.
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It must be Bill, baby, Bill, organized knife.
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Yes, our slogan must be, learn baby learn so that we can earn baby earn.
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And with a powerful commitment, I believe that we can transform dark yesterdays of injustice into bright tomorrows of justice and humanity.
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Let us keep going toward the goal of selfhood, toward the realization of the dream of brotherhood.
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and toward the realization of the dream of understanding goodwill.
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Let nobody stop us.
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I close by quoting once more the man that the young lady quoted, that magnificent black bard who has now passed on, Langston Hughes.
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One day he wrote a poem entitled Mother to Son.
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The mother didn't always have her grammar right, but she uttered words of great symbolic profundity.
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Well, son, I'll tell you, life for me ain't been no crystal stat.
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It's had tax in it.
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Boards torn up places with no carpet on the floor bare.
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But all the time, I's been a climbing on and reaching landings and turning corners and sometimes going in the dark where there ain't been no light.
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So boy, don't you stop now.
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Don't you sit down on the steps cause you find this kind of hard.
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But I still going boy, I still climbing.
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And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
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Well, life for none of us has been a crystal stair.
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But we must keep moving.
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We must keep going.
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If you can't fly, run.
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If you can't run, walk.
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If you can't walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving.
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In questa lezione, avrai l'opportunità di praticare l'inglese attraverso uno dei discorsi più influenti della storia, quello di Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream". Utilizzando il metodo di shadowspeak, potrai migliorare le tue abilità di conversazione in inglese, apprendere la pronuncia corretta e acquisire familiarità con frasi significative e ispiratrici. Ci concentreremo sul significato delle parole e sull'importanza di esprimerle con passione e determinazione.

Vocabolario e Frasi Chiave

  • blueprint: progetto, schema
  • dignity: dignità
  • worth: valore
  • excellence: eccellenza
  • opportunity: opportunità
  • determination: determinazione
  • achieve: raggiungere
  • significance: significato

Consigli per la Pratica

Quando pratichi con il discorso di Martin Luther King Jr., ti consiglio di utilizzare la tecnica dello shadowing. Inizia ascoltando il video e cerca di cogliere il ritmo e l’intonazione. Una volta che ti senti a tuo agio, inizia a ripetere le frasi insieme a lui. Fai attenzione alla sua pronuncia emotiva e alla cadenza delle sue parole. Puoi anche fermare il video frequentemente per praticare frasi più difficili e assicurarti di ripeterle correttamente. Riconoscere l’importanza delle pause e dell’enfasi ti aiuterà a rendere la tua pratica di conversazione in inglese più naturale e coinvolgente.

Incorporare questo esercizio nel tuo shadowing site ti permetterà di migliorare non solo la tua pronuncia ma anche la tua capacità di comunicare con sicurezza e passione. Impegnati a svolgere questo esercizio frequentemente e vedrai notevoli miglioramenti nella tua fluidità e abilità oratorie.

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

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