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Martin Luther King Jr. is viewed as one of the most influential civil rights activists and leaders of all time, preaching non-violence and peace throughout America. In this article commemorating MLK’s legacy, Cesar Chavez utilizes pathos, repetition, and plural first-person pronouns to illustrate his view that nonviolence is more effective and moral than violence. Throughout this passage, Chavez repeated the words “non-violence” and “violence” as a way to emphasize his argument. When he speaks about how “non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause” and how “if we resort to violence then. the violence will escalate”, he uses repetition (Chavez 13-15). This constant use of these words underlines an obvious contrast and provides the reader with a clearer understanding of the benefits nonviolence can bring and all of the detrimental effects violent resistance has. …show more content…

The entire article is empowering and inspirational. A call to action by the author for people who have been suffering from injustice. He acknowledges that people turn to violence “when the deep concern they have for the people is frustrated” and how “the burden of generations of poverty and powerlessness lies heavy in the fields of America” (Chavez, 42-44, 48-50). These quotes can lead the reader to empathize with those who are struggling and allow them to recognize that although violence is an easy way out of confronting issues, the more “honorable” and liberating thing to do is participate in non-violent protests. This is exactly what Martin Luther King Jr. did. Even when he was faced with impossible odds during his fight for civil rights, he preached for

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Appeal to history is used as an argument that use past cases as a guide to the future. It is used by the author in the article when he looks back at nonviolent protests in the past and how successful they can be over violence. One example being Gandhi’s marches in which he taught that “[t]he boycott…is the most nearly perfect instrument of nonviolent change, allowing masses of people to participate actively in a cause” (Chavez 61-64). Chavez also states that if victory were attained through violence, it “…would come at the expense of injury or perhaps death” and it will only be temporary as it will just “… [replace] one violent form of power with just another just as violent” (Chavez 67-68, 75-77). The author makes it clear that history has proven the nonviolent protests holds more leverage as the oppression it is against, whereas violence can only lead to injuries and deaths of many and only result in a similar or worse

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