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"I Have a Dream" Martin Luther King Jr.
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- Ethos
- "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclomation. This momentous cleeree is a great beaconlight of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.
- Pathos
- "But, 100 years later the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later the life of the Negro is still badly crippled by the manacles of segragation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later the Negro loves 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."
- Logos
- "When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise to all men - yes, black men as well as white men - would be guarenteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
- King explains that a president Lincoln, whom everyone knows, also fought for black equality. He was a role model the many people looked up to. The audience feel like they are fighting of the same reason.
- Ethos
- King is telling the crowd that many years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclomation, black people are still suffering and not free.
- Pathos
- "There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundation of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges."
- King is explaining that nothing has changed, or taken effect, to every black person in the United States.
- Logos
- King finds the Lincoln Memorial fitting for the situation because Lincoln also fought for the equal rights of blacks.
- "We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizingdrug of gradualism."
- King makes a point of how hard they will work for their freedom. The audience feels determined to be granted their rights of freedom
- He reasons to the crowd that everyone understands money and that the listener is able to relate to being handed a bad check, while the white people are being handed good checks.
- "America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds. And so we have come to cash this check."
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