i have a dream

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LINCOLN MEMORIAL, WASHINGTON D.C.
"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation."
Emancipation ProclamationAbraham Lincoln
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Dr. King builds trust by linking his cause to Abraham Lincoln and a respected historical document. This shows he is knowledgeable and that his fight for freedom is based on America's most important ideals.
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"One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition."
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This appeals to emotion by making the audience feel sadness and anger about the injustice. Phrases like "still languished" and "an exile in his own land" highlight the painful reality that Black Americans are treated as outsiders in their own country.
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NOW!
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"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."
Dr. King uses logical reasoning to reject the idea of waiting for change. He argues that waiting (gradualism) is a dangerous and unproductive luxury. The logical conclusion is that the time for action is now to reach the nation's core democratic promises.

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