Pathos In I Have A Dream Speech
Martin Luther King Jr’s speech was the greatest example of freedom in the nation’s history, by word of mouth. Martin Luther King Jr. was a model leader for our nation through times of civil rights hardship. He was an equal opportunity advocate and was also a powerful dominant speaker. In the 1950’s racism was at its worst, especially in southern states. Martin Luther King had a point to prove with his “I Have a Dream” speech. He needed to persuade the nation at the time being that the “Negro was not free”. Martin Luther King wanted freedom through peace. He believed that freedom should be achieved without violating ones dignity. Dr. King was about respect and equality. He believed that despite race, gender, and age everyone was entitled
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He was a strong believer that one day regardless of your skin tone we will all form together and become one. In the mid 1950’s America was suffering from segregation. Colored people were set apart from the rest. Martin Luther King opened up his speech by using pathos. He appealed to his emotion in the early stage of his speech. “This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hopes to millions of Negro slaves who have been seared in the flames of withering injustice”. He started to give his audience the idea of what he is getting ready to talk about. He wants his audience to feel his words “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. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished”. Dr. King used repetition to emphasize the importance of what he is telling the audience. It makes you realize the degree of his point of view. Also reading the same phrase over and over makes you feel it emotionally, He’s stressing it by repeating himself, so the audience must feel his emotion through his
He was a strong believer that one day regardless of your skin tone we will all form together and become one. In the mid 1950’s America was suffering from segregation. Colored people were set apart from the rest. Martin Luther King opened up his speech by using pathos. He appealed to his emotion in the early stage of his speech. “This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hopes to millions of Negro slaves who have been seared in the flames of withering injustice”. He started to give his audience the idea of what he is getting ready to talk about. He wants his audience to feel his words “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. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished”. Dr. King used repetition to emphasize the importance of what he is telling the audience. It makes you realize the degree of his point of view. Also reading the same phrase over and over makes you feel it emotionally, He’s stressing it by repeating himself, so the audience must feel his emotion through his