An activist and a civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in his speech, “Facing the Challenge of New Age”, declares that the success of the Montgomery movement has broken many stereotypes. King’s purpose is to persuade the audience to take a stance for civil rights and carry on the non- violent protests. He adopts a confident tone in order to express to his audience the vision that the “new age” is inspiring and promising. King begins his speech to the members of the Montgomery Improvement Association by recalling the last assembly’s efforts to eliminate injustice and crediting the white community in Montgomery for their “moral sensitivity and discipline”. He appeals to the conscience of the audience by acknowledging that he has “faith in man” and “believe that there are great resources of goodwill in the southern white man”. He offers his gratitude …show more content…
He recurrently advocates to the citizens by encouraging them to press their voice as all “will be forced to compete with people of all races and nationalities”. He frequently prompts his audience to work even harder as a “new social order is being born” and the old one is crippling as it degrades the value of a black man. The repetitive use of the phrase “new order” conjectures the replication of the idea that all men are created equal and brings the excitement and the “Challenge of New Age”. Concluding his speech, King restates the need for a “new age”, which will guarantee civil liberty to people of all colors and calls for everyone, in the name of God, to put hand in hand together to fight the injustice through the use of peaceful protests against the bigotry and hatred. Furthering his closing statement King asks the American citizens to take part in the “glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our