On August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial over 200,000 people gathered to hear Martin Luther King Jr. speech ‘I Have A Dream”. King spoke about the injustices of segregation and discrimination of African Americans that was taking place in the nation. In King's speech he masterfully uses ethos, logos, and pathos to provide proof to all Americans that racism and segregation should not be the foundation of the nation. By using these three rhetorical devices king makes his speech more appealing to the listeners/readers.
In King's speech, ethos was used the most important. King gives the example “We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with frigate of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways on to hotels of the cities… as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.” ( ). King uses this to change the view of people giving realistic examples of what was going on; the kinds of discriminations he Arican-American people who were suffering. King also declared “the architects of our republic wrote the magnification words of the …show more content…
He started his speech off by stating the history of America and then he explained the reason that they were gathering there that day. “Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children…” ( ). King used “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.” to reference Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. (269). King used this to start his speech because it was in the the Gettysburg address Lincoln spoke of all men being created equal. He also said “America has given the Negro a bad check, a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.’” ( ). He is using logic as a form of reasoning. He reasons that everyone understands money and that the listener is able to relate to being handed a bad
In King's speech, ethos was used the most important. King gives the example “We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with frigate of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways on to hotels of the cities… as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.” ( ). King uses this to change the view of people giving realistic examples of what was going on; the kinds of discriminations he Arican-American people who were suffering. King also declared “the architects of our republic wrote the magnification words of the …show more content…
He started his speech off by stating the history of America and then he explained the reason that they were gathering there that day. “Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children…” ( ). King used “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.” to reference Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. (269). King used this to start his speech because it was in the the Gettysburg address Lincoln spoke of all men being created equal. He also said “America has given the Negro a bad check, a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.’” ( ). He is using logic as a form of reasoning. He reasons that everyone understands money and that the listener is able to relate to being handed a bad