Repetition In Dr. King's I Have A Dream Speech

Imagine growing up in a place where everyone around you was segregated based on their skin color.How would that make you feel? This made Dr.King want more for colored people. He was tired of separate bathrooms, water fountains, and even restaurants.He wanted a place where everyone could be free and equal regardless of their skin color. Even though he was just a baptist church minister,[a] he fought for justice.Dr.king was a leader in the civil rights movement. He led peaceful protests and was well respected; with this in mind one of his known boycotts was the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955. Later on Dr.king gave his famous “I Have A Dream” speech . [b]Immediately this speech gave people of color hope for a better future where they will all be free. In other words it gave them hope that …show more content…
Repetition is a big part in Dr.King's speech. He uses repetition to get his points across to people, and to hammer in all his concepts ( Presentation Magazine). He uses repetition to persuade the audience about the importance of the civil rights movement. Using persuasion through repetition, he let his audience know about his dream for the south.Examples of some of the dreams he had and told everyone were “one day this nation will rise up” and that his “four little children’ will eventually live “in a nation where they will not be judged” by “their skin color” but instead “the content of their character” (King, Martin Luther, Jr.). By using repetition it helps to make his speech more intense (Anatomy of Inspiring Speakers). Throughout the speech all of his repetition builds on each other. Once he gets to his last statements, his repetition gets more frequent to build more passion and emotion.(Anatomy of Inspiring Speakers). As you can see repetition is a big part of his persuasion, which, is much needed to bring his points across even more. His repetition helped him to make an even bigger