During the days of segregation Martin Luther King was trying to make changes in society. He would use different things such as pathos, logos, and ethos to persuade the people of America to stop violence and start non-violent resistance. King also shows the difference of being the oppressed and the oppressor by explaining how not doing anything to make a change is being the oppressor and is still wrong in every way. Martin Luther King explains himself through ethos, logos, and pathos to show right from wrong and oppressed and the oppressor to make a difference in America during the Civil RIghts Movement. He used ethos the most in his speeches such as relating to bible verses or explaining the struggle that the black american has to go through every single day. King uses allusions to the bible to show what's right from wrong and shows how long it's been going on throughout time. In addition King says, “They’re accustomed to being slaves,” which by that he is saying that is what first comes to mind when you think of a black American at that time. Furthermore King says that the black American is so used to being oppressed that they have acquiescence, they …show more content…
King uses some words such as destruction, arrogance, meaninglessness to describe the violence and all the wrong that people were doing. For example when King said in paragraph 6-7 a “Descending spiral ending in destruction for all,” meaning that if the people stayed on the path of hatred and anger towards humandy that eventually they would crumble from their own. Undoubtedly King was not wrong about that statement. Today in this day in age represents that statement, it seems that we have not made improvements, if anything we have declined and the violence has increased. Based on the future and reality King was not far off from his saying, today we are not on an upwards trajectory to making change, but on the downwards trajectory to