Martin Luther King Jr. was a man with strong motives and was able to move people through his words and speeches, such as his speech “I Have a Dream”. King was a civil rights activist and his speech’s main purpose was to end racial segregations in the 1960s. Through out his speech’s paragraphs King gives a lot claims. Some of the claims King mentions are: “ ‘the Negro is still not free;’ ‘black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’ ‘America has given the Negro people a bad check’. I personally believe, that out of all of the selections that I have currently read, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech has the most persuading claim because he had a healthy use of rhetorical devices. …show more content…
In this quote King is referring to how the racial injustices keep the African-American from being freed. He says “ the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination”. Through this metaphor he is saying African-Americans are suffering from discrimination and segregation. While Martin Luther King, Jr. used figurative language to emphasize a problem so did Anna Quindlen. She said “That’s because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk art-forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades. But in contrast Kings uses better word choice and created more emphasis with