MLK Letter from Birmingham Jail - Rhetorical Triangle
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- שקופית: 1
- "I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every southern state...We have some eighty five affiliated organizations across the South, and one of them is the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights."
- Ethos
- King identifies himself to the clergymen as the president of a well-know organization. It represents he is organized and a responsible figure that contributes to the Civil Rights Movement. He is someone with the authority to speak and act on civil rights issues.
- שקופית: 2
- "But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society"
- Pathos
- King acts to evoke emotions of grief and sympathy into the hearts of the clergymen. He wants them to see the suffering the Black community is experiencing through segregation and racism, so they act to support his actions and the civil rights cause.
- שקופית: 3
- "One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all."
- Logos
- King uses a logical claim to justify his act of civil disobedience and direct action. He wants his audience to think deeper about what a just vs. an unjust law is, and how it effect the Black community. He further backs this claim through citing the word of the esteemed theologian St. Augustine
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