Is The Impact Of Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream Speech

Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28th, 1963. It was a turning point in American History for African Americans and American society in general. His motivating of a nation to live up to the democratic principles of its founders was a sharp display of America's private grief. In the beginning of his speech he references Abraham Lincoln and how American sins had stretched back to the days of slavery. When he addressed what he said was going to be "the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation," he was absolutely right.
King’s speech, nonetheless, did not just reach out to Americans. People all over the world were affected by his speech and he would soon set off a worldwide movement for racial emancipation and for an end to segregation. They became moved by his valid points of the injustice that was appointed at African Americans. Americans were moved by the nonviolence and peacefulness that King preached and how
He spoke of how unfairly blacks were treated and how it went against what our nation was all about: equality. His strong leadership and unprecedented power of speech is what made his infamous “I Have a Dream” so unforgettable.
In his “I Have a Dream” speech King used an abundant amount of rhetorical devices to give emphasis to what he was saying. For example, King repeats in his speech the words “I have a dream” at the beginning of a phrase multiple times. This is known as an anaphora. He also does this by repeating “Let freedom ring” at the beginning of his phrases towards the end of his speech to emphasize the point of having equality for people everywhere; whether it be the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado, the Stone Mountain of Georgia, the Lookout Mountain of Tennessee, or from every hill and molehill of