Rhetorical Analysis Of Civil Rights Speech By Martin Luther King Jr.

This speech was meant for primarily for African Americans and to all who supported the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr would stress the importance of non-violence throughout the movement and mentions it again in this speech staring that they have overcome violence. In this speech King also consistently praises American democracy stating that they can protest because of democracy that they couldn’t do this if they were in a communist nation or a nation run under a dictatorship. This was done to show that the movement, while challenging the values of America is still a pro American movement. It showed that the people part of the movement was still American and still followed American ideas. It was a chance to distance themselves