MLK Rhetorical Situation
MLK speech
Rhetorical Situation
Martin Luther King Jr’s, I have a dream speech is one of the most powerful speeches in the civil rights movement. He himself was the most important voices to the movement because he did all he could to show people that “all men are created equal”. He was crucial to the civil rights movement because he was one of many to take a stand against the racism and the inequality of the time. He wanted to eliminate the racial segregation, not just in public but in schools and in the workplaces. Martin Luther King Jr. gave people the hope that there was a way to freedom, that they were not a “bad check, a check that has been marked an “insufficient fund”.
He knew that the only way to end the segregation was not with violence, which he warns the audience, but with words and actions. Martin Luther King Jr.’s warning to the audience is not only those there at the Lincoln
Memorial, but those watching it on television. There were more than a quarter of a million people there at the Lincoln Memorial, and those that could not be there were watching it on television. The nation as a whole at that time, had all eyes trained on him as he was giving this piece of history. Most of the people there were whites. There were many white people that supported what Martin Luther King had to say and how he went about doing so. Martin Luther
King Jr. says in his speech, “for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.” Here he is making that connection again that “all men are created equal”, and that the whites are now realizing this. In this time in history it was few whites that were taking stands against the segregation of blacks from the whites, especially in the south. Martin Luther helped along with others that day, show how
Rhetorical Situation
Martin Luther King Jr’s, I have a dream speech is one of the most powerful speeches in the civil rights movement. He himself was the most important voices to the movement because he did all he could to show people that “all men are created equal”. He was crucial to the civil rights movement because he was one of many to take a stand against the racism and the inequality of the time. He wanted to eliminate the racial segregation, not just in public but in schools and in the workplaces. Martin Luther King Jr. gave people the hope that there was a way to freedom, that they were not a “bad check, a check that has been marked an “insufficient fund”.
He knew that the only way to end the segregation was not with violence, which he warns the audience, but with words and actions. Martin Luther King Jr.’s warning to the audience is not only those there at the Lincoln
Memorial, but those watching it on television. There were more than a quarter of a million people there at the Lincoln Memorial, and those that could not be there were watching it on television. The nation as a whole at that time, had all eyes trained on him as he was giving this piece of history. Most of the people there were whites. There were many white people that supported what Martin Luther King had to say and how he went about doing so. Martin Luther
King Jr. says in his speech, “for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.” Here he is making that connection again that “all men are created equal”, and that the whites are now realizing this. In this time in history it was few whites that were taking stands against the segregation of blacks from the whites, especially in the south. Martin Luther helped along with others that day, show how