Martin Luther King Jr Speech
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- E t h o s
- Emancipation Proclamation
- E t h o s
- When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
- Declaration of Independence
- This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
- P a t h o s
- Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation
- Martin Luther King Jr. uses Abraham Lincoln -a president we all know- to show that he also has been fighting for black equality.
- P a t h o s
- The Founding Fathers stated that all men are created equal in the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration is something most people want to follow as well admire.
- L o g o s
- The way Martin uses empowering words gives his audience to feel powered and the will to do something about black equality.
- L o g o s
- This statement makes the audience feel sorrow and pity for the African Americans having to live through these conditions.
- We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "for whites only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.
- But 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 in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land.
- "100 years later" shows that even though the Emancipation Proclamation happened, there's still problems with black equality for more than 100 years.
- The audience understands the difference between a good and a bad check. Whites are given the good check, on the other hand African Americans have a bad check.
- America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
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