Ethos, Pathos, Logos
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- Dr. King demonstrates leadership to the vast crowd when he starts his speech with "I am happy to join with you today." In doing so he heightens his reputation in the Civil Rights Movement by discussing freedom. He also talks about how President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation 100 years ago, thus making more people support him in his argument, by bringing up an important figure in American history.
- "I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation."
- Ethos
- "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation."
- "When the architects of our republic wrote the Magnificent word 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 to the 'Unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty and Happiness."'
- Martin Luther King Jr. used pathos in this part of his speech to show the people what rights they were promised, making them feel upset that this was not honored. He created a sense of despair by talking about how the children of the future would not have equal rights and not be able to go to every place just because of racial signs.
- Pathos
- "We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating, 'For White Only.'"
- "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 mist of a vast ocean of material prosperity."
- Martin Luther King Jr. explained to the people that even after they were promised rights and freedom in the past, black people were still segregated and discriminated against. In referencing the part of the quote "...bad check...", he was proving that the promise of equality was broken. He used logic with the people in this way, because everyone understood money.
- Logos
- "America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'"
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