Martin Luther King Use Pathos In John Lewis Speech

I'm sure you know about the march on Washington. The march of black rights activists to inspire the government to pass the civil rights act. When you think about the civil rights movement, or the march on Washington, you probably think about Martin Luther King or John Lewis’s speeches. Both famous speeches but how do they compare and contrast? While both Lewis and King use different rhetorical devices both of their speeches are equally effective for their designed use. In Martin Luther Kings “I Have a Dream” speech he primarily uses pathos. He uses pathos because he needs to send people home with a sense of hope. In the quote “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still

John Lewis used primarily logos. John Lewis wanted more from the civil rights bill, so his purpose was to inspire the crowd to want more. He Uses logos when he says “Unless Title III is put in this bill, there is nothing to protect the young children and old women who must face police dogs and fire hoses in the South while they engage in peaceful demonstrations.” (Lewis pg.1). This is an example of logos because he logically explains that if they don't change the bill there will still be problems, this inspires people to want Article 3 and that they shouldn't settle for less, he does this by mentioning the repercussions of excluding this bill from the civil rights act. The next example of his use of logos comes from the quote “but we have nothing to be proud of. For hundreds and thousands of our brothers are not here. For they are receiving starvation wages, or no wages at all. While we stand here, there are sharecroppers in the Delta of Mississippi who are out in the fields working for less than three dollars a day, twelve hours a day. While we stand here there are students in jail on trumped-up charges.”(Lewis pg.1). Here he uses logos by explaining that there are currently people suffering because of racial injustice and they should not be proud of that, he uses facts by mentioning real life problems. The last example of Lewis’s use of logos is when he says If we

At first glance Martin Luther King's speech may seem more effective mainly because it was more popular, but I believe John Lewis’s speech was equally as effective. Lewis and King both wanted the same thing And that's apparent when you compare these 2 quotes. “We want our Freedom and we want it Now.” (Lewis pg.2) and “to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.” (King pg. 4) both these quotes show that they both want freedom for black individuals. What some people need to remember is that John Lewis’s speech was meant to persuade people to want more from the civil rights bill, while King needed to send people home with Hope. You can tell king meets his expectations with this quote “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!³” (king pg. 4) You can tell he really delivers hope because not only do these words really install hope by giving a happy image of the future but also by how the audience reacts to it. In the video the audience cheered so loud one could assume they were full of passion. To state Lewis's case when you look at the quote “As it stands now, the voting section of this bill will not help the thousands of black people who want to vote. It will not help the citizens of Mississippi, of Alabama and Georgia, who are qualified to vote, but lack a sixth-grade education.” (Lewis pg.1) it becomes more clear that lewis had a