How Martin Luther King Jr. Builds a Speech On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther gave a speech to the Riverside Church in New York City. He starts off his speech saying,”Since I am a preacher by calling, I suppose it is not surprising I have major reasoning for bringing Vietnam into the field of my moral vision.”(1) In that sentence, you can tell right away that Martin Luther is talking about the Vietnam war. This would be a serious and interesting hook for his speech due to how many various men of all ages were sent to go fight in the war. Martin grabs the attention of his audience by appealing to Pathos, he talks about the war throughout his speech which can be a sensitive topic for an individual, but it is serious. The war was devastating for most and when Martin gives his speech he explains how there was hope for many stating,”It seems as if there was a promising hope for the poor- both black and white- throughout the poverty program.”(1) but then he realizes the war was bad for both poor and poverty. …show more content…
He does this to get to people and have the listen closely. Something to take into perspective is when Martin talks in his second paragraph and claims,”We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties to Southeast Asia which they had not found in Southwest Georgia and East Harlem. And so we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same school.”(2) In this statement is Martin appealing to everyone with pathos by telling them how it is awfully ironic to send young black men to fight alongside white men and there's not an issue with that, but individuals cannot have their kids in the same school without there being a lot of