In the nineteen-forties there was a terrible war raging on, with many dead, and others wounded. Little did America know, there was another war, a silent war, a war of opportunities and understanding. During the war years, morale was low and Americans were afraid to go to war, however; the Double V campaign encouraged Americans to fight for democracy and victory abroad and at home. Unfortunately, it didn 't include all Americans. African-Americans had been fighting for their own freedom for many years, but now, they wanted to fight for their country and were denied,“For surely those who perpetrate these ugly prejudices here are seeking to destroy our democratic form of government just as surely as the Axis forces.”
Martin Luther King Jr. was an influential civil rights leader. He wanted to bring all people together and live in a peaceful society. In his speech, King talked about how as a leader of a civil rights movement, he couldn't support the war in Vietnam. Martin Luther King Jr. persuaded his audience to not support the Vietnam war through his use of ethos and pathos.
Their expectations of the outcome of the Civil War linked to their hope for a chance of reconciliation and freedom just as much as ay other white man. They knew exactly what they were fighting for, and because of this, the meaning for them became just as significant and meaningful. However for the blacks during this time period, their understanding of the significance of the war contributed to how it eventually changed during the period of Reconstruction when Blight says, “These black soldiers had no trouble defining the meaning of freedom and the war; they were only beginning the long struggle to protect the memory of their story… ” (Bailey, Chapter 1 p. 24). In Bailey’s statement, the meaning of the Civil War changed for blacks and was somewhat different from a white’s because of their basic placement in society that separated them due to their different meanings/purposes for the war.
And, to argue that King 's most radical days were never fulfilled; that his next campaign was to confront the president over the Vietnam War and economic disparity, “a direct confrontation with a president over an immoral war” state Hill and Wang from the book review. Although a limitation is that in almost every book about Martin Luther King including this one, only describe King’s successes and not all the failures. This occurs because the authors do not want to portray a bad image about a good man, but it is very important for us to know these failures so that we can learn and not have to understand why King did specific things, plus this topic is one of the most important events in U.S. history that’s why we need to know exactly what happened especially its when its going to remembered for many years to
But, as the South Vietnamese were fighting for their liberation from a communist regime and the Americans were not, the Americans could not provide the Vietnamese with the will to win. Seeing as their efforts in Vietnam were not as effective as had been hoped for, America began to lose support for the war as tensions at home increased. “It is like sending a lion to halt an epidemic of jungle rot,” [Doc E]. The lions that were being sent, as many of the time recognized, were often minorities and oppressed people. Martin Luther King, a popular civil rights activist, said, “We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem,” [Doc C].
Throughout the first paragraph of King’s speech, he used emotional diction with words such as struggle, poverty, and poor to prove that the war in Vietnam was bringing down the American’s and their families fighting overseas. King proved this partly with the quote, “America would never invest the necessary funds… in the rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued…” (King, Beyond, 9). King was establishing his point that America was more troubled about healing and adjusting other countries, but would never invest the same in their own country. He was in the process of proving that it wasn 't a money issue in America, but an equality issue.
Martin Luther King was a determined activist for equality for all. King spoke for the weak that did not have the voices to speak for themselves; for example, he represented the poor. Recognizing that citizens in poverty were not able to support their families while away from home at war, Martin Luther King included that “ war [and being enlisted in battle was] … an enemy of poor” to demonstrate how even though any man could be drafted, the economically stable left behind support for their family while the impoverished were ineligible of doing so (Source A). Rhetorical devices are included in Martin Luther King’s speeches to prove conflict. For example, this quote personifies war as being an enemy.
The Civil War was a hard time period for many Americans living in the United States, especially Black Americans. Before and after the Civil War they were treated with racism and faced discrimination. But after the Civil War, there was a national goal of Reconstruction. Reconstruction was a goal to rebuild the economy, and relationships between the North and South, and to grant Black Americans their civil rights. The main area of the Nation that needed to be rebuilt was the Southern states, this is where Black Americans faced the most discrimination.
Abu Bakr, a senior companion to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, once said, “Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.” In the Aboriginal stories of The Shivering Tree and Raven and His Grandmother, there are characters who end up failing to flourish because of their pride. The personal vanity of the Juggler in The Shivering Tree and the Villagers in Raven and His Grandmother leads to negative or unfortunate consequences as a means of discipline or revenge. In both stories, unfulfillment influences the Juggler and the Villagers and ends up ruining their lives. Being greedy for what they do not have leads the Juggler and the Villagers into their own demise.
Smiley and West frequently reference Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s famous speech on the Vietnam War which criticizes the American government for using the war as a diversion from domestic issues. They commend King for his courage to explicitly address the government’s shortcomings and state that “War is the enemy of the poor.” American intervention abroad can benefit the White Agenda because the government can project an image of a White Savior furthering democracy and freedoms in tyrannical states. On the other hand the image of America’s success is tainted by the legacy of poverty in this country, and to even address the problem would be an admittance of its
Poor People’s Campaign In the last year of his life, King actively expanded the scope of his efforts to include not only civil rights issues but also human rights issues important to people the world over. As the war in Vietnam escalated in the second half of the 1960s, King grew dissatisfied with the situation. In 1967 he began to speak out consistently against the war. In speeches and rallies around the country, he called for a negotiated settlement.
Martin Luther King Jr. disagreed with the way the war was being handled, and thought nonviolent demonstrations would be more efficient. In his speech, “Beyond Vietnam- A Time to Break Silence” Martin Luther King Jr., uses appeals to emotion, appeals to credibility, and powerful diction to strengthen his argument and persuade his audience that the Vietnam War is unjust. First, Martin Luther King Jr. uses emotional appeals to persuade his audience that the Vietnam War is unjust because it is unfairly killing the poor and its destroying the country. King uses emotional words and descriptions to capture the audience’s attention and convey the injustices caused by the Vietnam War.
Martin Luther King Jr. Knew exactly how the United States should have been run from the beginning. In “I have a Dream” Dr. martin Luther King convinces his audience that every man is created equal and should be treated the same. IN his speach MLK Jr. uses many rhetorical devices including logos and allusion. He said,”This note was a promise that all men, yes black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the “inalienable rights” of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but the content of their character”. Dr King had a vision of a society in which race was not an issue in how people were treated or in how they were allowed to to live their lives. The efforts of King and those who liked him have, in fact , changed the country and the world for the better in noticeable ways . His vision has made the world a more equal place , if not an equal one, and it helped to ensure that minorities have a voice. A second impact Martin luther King did to change the country was in 1955 he became heavily notice in Montgomery and the Alabama boycott of the city buses.
On August 28, 1963, at the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech entitled "I Have a Dream". The purpose of Martin Luther King 's speech was to make Americans of all racial backgrounds aware of the racial, civil, and economic inequality that was taking place in the United States. Martin Luther King 's speech was intended to bring awareness of the problem of inequality and to give Americans hope and faith that one day everyone, black and white, would be equal. King states in his speech that when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, it gave hope to millions that had experienced injustice and inequality, and his expectation was to bring hope to Americans by delivering this speech just as Lincoln
