“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me--all I ask is you respect me as a human being,” once said by the famous baseball player, Jackie Robinson. Even though Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, colored people aren’t getting the respect they really deserve. I believe that this is the reason “I Have a Dream” is the most compelling speech; it gets it’s right to source that all men are created equal. According to the Declaration of Independence, all men including black men are granted Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. This is shown through the speech’s statements that black men can’t be pushed out of the picture for they are human beings too. This emphasis on how colored people are being treated wrongly
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This speech states that if you don’t stand up for what is right and you let people manipulate you, you will never make it anywhere. Martin summarizes this by saying, “Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.” (King) He is telling the audience that white men are not God’s only children, black people are two for we are all human beings, we are all granted the same rights. Why should blacks get put down and shamed racially for their color? He claims, “...we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.” (King) Mr. King is persuading the audience that they need to do something they aren’t just going to let white people bully them and put them down to the bottom of the list just to make room for whites. The influential rhetorical devices that made this speech very enthusing was figure of speech. Martin uses metaphors to show Negroes are still slaves of discrimination, “...the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of segregation.” (King) An additional device is structure. Short sentences are included into longer sentences to punctuate and add more detail to sentences so that Dr. Martin Luther King can spread his point of racial shaming around. But, you always have to remember, when you are messing with other human beings who think the same: Two can play at that
This speech states that if you don’t stand up for what is right and you let people manipulate you, you will never make it anywhere. Martin summarizes this by saying, “Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.” (King) He is telling the audience that white men are not God’s only children, black people are two for we are all human beings, we are all granted the same rights. Why should blacks get put down and shamed racially for their color? He claims, “...we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.” (King) Mr. King is persuading the audience that they need to do something they aren’t just going to let white people bully them and put them down to the bottom of the list just to make room for whites. The influential rhetorical devices that made this speech very enthusing was figure of speech. Martin uses metaphors to show Negroes are still slaves of discrimination, “...the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of segregation.” (King) An additional device is structure. Short sentences are included into longer sentences to punctuate and add more detail to sentences so that Dr. Martin Luther King can spread his point of racial shaming around. But, you always have to remember, when you are messing with other human beings who think the same: Two can play at that