Analysis Of I Have A Dream Speech

1963 in America, two important figures in the Civil Rights movements now have given important speeches at respectable venues . We have George Wallace giving the “Segregation now, Segregation forever” speech upon winning the Alabama governorship in Montgomery, Alabama. In Washington D.C. Martin Luther King gives his “I Have A Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial coinciding with the Washington March for jobs and freedom. I, we will attempt to define these speeches by way of Rhetorical appeals; Kairos, Ethos, Logos, Pathos,

We will examine George Wallace by rhetorical appeal, Kairos. Kairos is a quality that evokes the right time and place. For Wallace he had given his speech from the Confederate state of Alabama. Theoretically, the Confederate
Logos is a way a speaker makes sense or his appeal to logic. From the time he was born, he had politics seeping out of his veins like a cut of blood. He loved politics and implementing policy. This was all he wanted to do with his life. To George Wallace Politics made sense. What made sense to him also was the fact that he wanted political racial segregation. He thought segregation was a good idea. Of segregation Wallace stated to his Negro counterparts, "We invite the Negro citizens of Alabama to work with us from his separate racial station"(5). He argued for segregation that he protested the enrollment of two black students at the University of Alabama. Wallace literally stood in front of an entrance and tried to block the students. George Wallace, Politics, Confederacy with racial segregation was very ,to him,
Dr. King was just an emotional Pathos speaker. He had every right to be. The way that he gave the speech you can feel the emotion, the shame, the pain. This was the pain and shame of the nation's government of racial segregation and discrimination. Dr. King had diagnosed a big problem in America in the 1960's. It has been going on for many years. What did Dr. King respond, "But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination... the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity"(1). Dr. King just explained to us how for many years the Negro person had suffered from being a slave from Africa to now blacks responding to signs that tell them where to go such as, "For Whites Only"(2). In the Sixties this had become the last straw and Blacks wanted to be treated