Dr. King aligned the past, the present and the future intending to end his speech with hopes and promises of a change that was to be conducted with peace and equality, in perfect harmony to humane relations. Martin Luther King through his speech moved a crowd of 200,000 people; his assembly of words and rhetorical strategies managed to advocate humanity in the face of social color blindness. His words still live and continue to inspire thousands…
King started writing a letter while he was in the Birmingham jail, to the clergy men explaining why he felt he was being treated unfairly. He was saying that freedom should be allowed anywhere you go. Mr. King was also a very religious person so he believed that white authority wasn’t what god wanted. He also believed that the blacks should have academic and voting rights along with the whites. Mr. King had believed that conflict created a lot of tension.…
His speech implies same similarity in his letter to the clergymen but adds his own personal view of what he sees. King talks about how it’s “time to lift our Nation from the quicksand’s of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood” (King 2). The brotherhood is a reference to acknowledge African American civil citizens. He then demonstrates is awareness to his “people who stand on the worn threshold which leads into the palace of justice” (King 3).…
He wants everyone to listen to what he has to say. He talks about individual states to have that relate to the people that live there. He wants the people listening to the great wonders of the states. King respectfully uses pathos, ethos, and logos, throughout his whole speech. He correctly identifies each issue that the people have with segregation.…
However, just like in history these groups who abuse their privileges and deny the lower classes the same rights are destined to be doomed and come to the same fate. King’s tone would be different based on the audience that would be reading this. To his black minority it would be perceived as motivation to work harder to gain equality. To the white majority this would be perceived as a call to action to take this unjust and unmoral separation of races and create an equality of all races. To the white clergymen this would be perceived as a…
Although I have read and analyzed this letter previously in my studies many years ago, reading this letter at this time in my life was far more profound this time around. It gave me the feeling that I was reading it for the very first time. I was completely moved emotionally but extremely impressed by the factual and biblical examples that encompassed the entire letter. I knew that Dr. King was a highly passionate and intelligent man, but the factual component of the letter appealed to my reasoning and logic. I believe in quality for all based on my emotions, but what I have learned most recently in an Ethics class is that emotion alone is not a sufficient basis for deciding what we should or should not do.…
King was not afraid of the repercussions he would have faced for writing such letter, he makes everyone aware of the mentality that he now has. He has left the days that people choose to live their life day by day, allowing the torment from the white people to carry on throughout the community. This makes him a great and powerful leader that chooses to not fight physically but with peaceful, yet just as intimidating action. Martin Luther King, focused on not only equality for black and whites but for anyone who was mistreated, abused, and segregated. Like, so many other Transcendentalists, Mr. King realized that although it may be a different direction from what others are used to, he must take stand and go against the existing…
He understood “We, the People…” stated it preordained to be “treat fairly and equal for all”. King had observed that the white people in America were not treating Negro or other color people with respect and given no equal rights without having a fair trial in courts, public communities, bathrooms, restaurants and voting places. His famous speech “I have a Dream, that one day that we all will get along together as one” (King). He had built a strong leadership to encourage people to vote their rights instead of the Negros must suffer like slaves without freedoms and rights of citizen in America. He knew the slavery was over, but it’s the behavior that the government and the white people illustrate during the Civil Right…
King called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their…
King wants to make sure he gets the most important point, racism, clearly across to the other side, in addition, he does this thoroughly by presenting it at the beginning of his speech. Moreover, MLK states "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” (King 1) Martin Luther King Jr. is appealing to emotion in the way that he isn't necessarily stating his dream, rather he knows how it feels to be judged by the color of his skin. The thought of children not being able to be together because of their skin tone immediately brings up unpleasant images such as insane people. The actual argument, implied, is that there are objective universal rights and wrongs, moraly.…
In Martin Luther King Jr.’s essay entitled The Ways of Meeting Oppression, he argues why the path of nonviolent resistance is superior to the paths of acquiescence and physical violence. In his writing, Martin Luther King Jr. uses a few different rhetorical devices. He uses loaded words and diction to show that he is educated and professional, so people would take him seriously while living in a racist time period. He also alludes to many famous and historical sources. King uses these rhetorical devices combined with his intelligence makes his writing easy to read, while still being very informative.…
He wants to be able to be free and do everything a white person does and have the same rights as them. Throughout this speech, he is also letting the “negro” people know he is trying to make things right for them. He knows how they have been treated and he wants to let everyone understand what they feel on a daily basis by just describing everything. King writes, “I say to you today, my friends, though, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream” (King 4). This is an example of King using correct grammar to keep the educated audience paying attention to the speech.…
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation" King not only preached nonviolence, he practiced it. He used words rather than fists, and marches rather than guns. King's ability to rise above the common misconception of the need to fight fire with fire, and be morally better than his oppressors was mind numbing. To be violent while making a moral stand ruins the moral stand. King's moral courage is so provocative because of his commitment to nonviolence in the face of intense violence every day.…
Throughout the movement King and others earned themselves and African Americans the right of freedom of speech. Throughout King’s work, “I Have a Dream” speech and “Letter From Birmingham Jail” he shares logic to show information with his audience,…
The speech” I have a dream” by Martin Luther king, was delivered in August 28 1963 at Lincoln Memorial Washington D.C, is one of the most powerful speech in American history. The speech is powerful and the tone fluctuates mainly between pathos and logos. Also, the speaker provided argumentative speech by addressing reasons and supports for his argument. In addition, he represented the other point of view for his demand of racial justice. However, the words were simple, but the speech varies from the treatise style to the poetic one.…