Martin Luther King Ethos Pathos Logos

It was a humid and damp day in August of 1963, hundreds of people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial. As the ground gathered the man responsible for this was getting ready to make the speech of his life. Martin Luther King Jr. took the podium on August 28th 1963 to addressed the real issue on civil rights. King proceeds to bring his family into the speech to hit people with their emotions. King was a genius man. He uses some of the best writing techniques to engage his audience in the best ways. KIng used Ethos (ethics), Pathos (emotion), and logos (logic). With the help of these three modes of rhetoric. King created a speech that changed the world as we knew it. King speech changed lives and views of African Americans as a whole.

King is smart he starts his speech very similar to a great man in history before him. King states “Five score years ago”, just as Lincoln starts his gettysburg address “Four score and seven years ago”. (1) King starts the very beginning of his speech using his logic. He knows that he needs to persuade whites to see his views as big of a problem that they are. He continues to use Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, as his first piece of evidence. In Lincoln’s promissory note, he states “ This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice”. King is trying to show the audience that even the man that was in charge of the country one hundred years ago knew slavery was inhuman. This could be consider logic because he is persuading the audience t look at the views and concepts of america as a whole. This also shows that America in 100 years worked backwards instead of

To find someone's emotions over their logic and credibility is equal to looking in someone's journal. The emotion in king's speech was jumping off the pages. This entire speech is emotion, the problem was finding the pieces that meant to most to make a change. For me I really saw emotion when he started to talk about the children, growing up in a world with discrimination. When King stated, “We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self­hood and robbed of their dignity by a sign stating: "For Whites Only." (1) This really made me feel sick to my stomach. The way things happened back then is astonishing. When King talked about satisfaction and how out of reach it is, every example pulls a new emotion in you. Another place where he really got me was the infamous “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Although I have heard this many times before, it really strikes a chord with me. King uses emotional perfectly in his