Rhetorical Analysis Of I Have A Dream By Martin Luther King Jr.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his speech “I have a Dream” August 28th, 1963. He had four main points. Those points are as followed, The United States owes the black or “negro” community freedom. He also repeats several times that the protest should be non-violent. He now expresses the most valuable tool hope. Last he expresses his most important point, the problem does not just lie with the black community but with all americans. With these points he is making a strong argument. He is both speaking to blacks and whites. Trying to prove his point. Marin Luther says “In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check.” What does this mean? In other words, the black community is in payment of liberation. On January 1, 1863 Lincoln’s