Letter From Birmingham Jail Logos

“We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped and robbed of their dignity…”(King 263).
The speech, “I have a dream” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was given on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to non-violent protesters for equal rights for African Americans.
Counter to the speech, he also wrote the “Letter From Birmingham Jail” to respond to clergymen that had criticized him in the Newspaper.
Dr. Luther King used logos and pathos in both of his speech and the Letter to help persuade his audience and to highlight what he was trying to deliver to the clergymen.

In both of Dr. King writings he uses lots of examples of logos to prove to his audience and give them hard evidence that what he is saying is true.
In the speech

He used the signs as a fact to support what he was trying to portray to the people.
He also used Logos in his letter that he wrote to the clergymen.
When Dr.King was imprisoned in Birmingham city jail he came across a letter written in the newspaper by clergymen criticising Dr. King.

“...I came across your recent statement calling my preset activities “unwise and untimely”(Dr.King 271).
When he wrote back to the clergymen he used quotes from their letter as facts to help support what he was trying to point out to them.

Not only did he use logos to help persuade his audience but, he also used pathos in both his letter and speech.
In the beginning of the speech Dr. King gives an example of pathos and explains how even though African Americans live in a land of freedom, they are still being filed for their skin color.

“...the (colored) is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land ”(King 261).
When he used the words languished and exile it attracts listeners and gives them a small perspective on how the African Americans