In the course of pursuing his dream, egalitarianism throughout the community, Martin Luther King created numerous varied political speeches which justified his arguments of the controversy. From the moment when he began verbalizing this particular deliverance, I Have a Dream , King used appeal to authority in his speech to create ethos. While mentioning the Emancipation Proclamation, he expressed his reverence to Abraham Lincoln as “ a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today” ( King 1). By doing so, King is denoting the jurisdiction of Abraham Lincoln, the man who signed the document to free the slaves, in order to approach his goal of having equality for everyone of different races. This will draws people from the audience who are patriot and esteem one of the …show more content…
Amids creating his speech, Martin Luther King later use an emotional appeal to establish pathos. Amongst the various examples he use to draw sentiments from the audiences, King attracted the white people by using their empathy that are hidden inside of them; he stated, “ one hundred years later, the Negro [are] still is not free.” after being granted their equal rights of justice ( King 1). In the process of persuading the audiences, King is using emotional appeal by attempting to let the public know the feelings that were felt by the African Americans when they didn’t receive the treatment they deserve and their promise of equality forgotten, buried within the society. This will evoke a light bulb of some sort into some of the audience to place themselves in the people who are in this circumstances to experience their segregation. Accordingly, this may lead them into agreeing to King dispute for they may understand the situation from the victim's perspective: fight for civil rights. Also, during his speech, Martin Luther King utilizes an expert testimony in order to demonstrated the logical source for his idea,