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    “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…

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    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…

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    Luther King persuades thousands of people to rethink their direction and following they have placed before themselves when it comes to the severity of equal rights. This intensity is shown through specific statements in his I Have a Dream speech and shows each member that they all come from a similar background. Through Rhetoric, he conducts the needs of a nation through important points such as common dreams for humanity, satisfaction of citizens of the United States as a whole, and the…

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    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…

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    together against the ones who outlaw them, they will find happiness in their homes and may live freely. First of all, in the “I Have A Dream” speech, King talks about how the black people are being treated and how in a land that belongs to everyone, they cannot live safely and without worry in the line,“the Negro...finds himself exile in his own land.” When King delivered this speech to thousands in front of the Lincoln Memorial, he didn’t know where the level of discrimination would be in…

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    “I Have a Dream…” is the brilliant title of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s most famous speech to date. His every word is so very important and helped shape our future. I believe not only is the future important, but even more is the past. Everyone may have a dream, but it cannot exist without a past. Elie Wiesel focusses on both his past and future. Although Wiesel discusses the past as being extra imperative and a guideline to the time to come, life cannot exist without a future. I believe that my…

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    is a renowned minister and leader in the African American civil rights movement. On August 28, 1963 in Washington D.C. at the Lincoln Memorial Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. As about 200,000 black and whites gathered to hear Dr. King’s speech he started off by saying “I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in history of our nation.” Dr. King came out to speak about segregation and…

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    rights advocate during the mid-20th Century. During this time, racism was a huge issue in the United States. African-Americans were discriminated, segregated. and seen as inferior to the white American society. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s, “I Have a Dream” speech became one of the greatest weapons that he used to bring freedom and justice to the African-American individual. King uses past historical events, current documents and personal experiences, as well as emotional phrases to describe why…

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    Logos and Pathos in both his “I Have a Dream” speech and his “Letter From Birmingham Jail”, but he uses the emotional appeal or Pathos more often in both of these. MLK’s use of these in both is very similar but mostly the emotional appeal is the best thing he uses to get his point across. The use of pathos is very unique because he seems to try and toy with other people’s emotions to help them understand the importance of ending segregation. In MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech he uses logos to…

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    The speech that I am choosing to write about is "I Have a Dream" by Dr. Martin Luther King. The reason I chose this speech was because its power and its emotion. The quote that made the most impact at that time was "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal." This quote perfectly shows the central idea and what Dr. Martin Luther King wanted for everyone. He believed that…

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