Freedom Throughout the world people are fighting day and night for their lives. But the people that fight using their words instead of spilling blood are the soldiers. And the speeches that I used in this essay do exactly that. And instead of being like others that only want violence they used words to potraty their emotions. In the speech “I Had A Dream”by martin luther king, king fights for black rights and freedom without violence unlike others at that time.
and they need to fight. Nothing else is working so fighting is the only working option. Dr. King’s purpose to this speech is to get out the word that the people need to fight with nonviolence. “We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.” Martin Luther King is famous for fighting for equality using non violence.
Martin Luther King wanted to spark emotion in both the African American and white audience. He wanted to spark the emotion in the African American for them to join the non-violence movement. Dr. King said, “but there is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth” to bring emotion in fellow African American to the growth of racial equality. He wanted to spark the emotion in the White community to lessening the aggressiveness by giving insight on the everyday life of the African American. In paragraph 10 he quotes, “But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity”.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and congressman Robert Kennedy tried to inspire people who listened to or read their speeches or letters to stand against segregation worldwide by using powerful words that had meaning behind them. In Dr. King's “Letter From Birmingham Jail” he states, “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” This quote inspires many people who read his letter by providing very powerful words which allow the reader to feel strongly about the stand for freedom. Another way Dr. King used strong words to inspire people is by stating in his “I Have a Dream” speech, “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of
Freedom should be demanded because changes seldom occur without acts of defiance from the oppressed and freedom has often failed to be fully given to some as promised. To begin, the speech “ Eulogy for Dr. Martin King Jr.” by Robert F. Kennedy supports the idea of freedom being demanded because changes seldom occur without acts of defiance from the oppressed. For example Kennedy states, “ Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and to replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand with compassion and love.” (Kennedy CR26). In other words, Kennedy is trying to tell his audience that changes will only occur if they take action in the correct direction like King did.
In a related reading, “Letter From Birmingham Jail” Dr.King states, “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor.” Dr. King means since, oppressor doesn’t give them freedom, they must fight for it. The freedom must fought for and it will not give to those
Non-violence is acting without physical confrontation. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the many people that solved situation without using violence. By using only his words be demonstrated that we African-Americans can do anything without using violence. Practicing non-violence can make you look morally stronger than the other person. In my opinion using there are time when you should use non violence like when you’re using self defence.
Dr. King makes logical and emotional claims in “I Have a Dream” and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” these are represented in paragraph 7 in “I Have a Dream” when he says “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.” This means that He
This was also the time when Dr. King was using peaceful protest to help promote blacks’ rights and how they were looked upon on society. Dr. King furthers this topic by saying in his I Have A Dream speech, “And some of you have come from areas where your quest - - quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police
Martin Luther King Jr.’s overall tone in his speech is determination; determination to gain equality for all races and colors and for the nation to unite in fighting the injustices of inequality in America in the 1950’s. I Have A Dream, is all about his dream that one day all the injustices in the world will one day disappear. The use of diction brings the reader towards his tone of determination , contributing to his overall feelings towards his mission of wanting freedom and equality, which he portrays throughout the entire speech. King uses bold words repetitively such as "freedom" "dream" and “justice” to open his argument that equality will bring freedom to the black community.
Martin Luther King Jr, an African American and Civil Rights Activist in the 1960s, fights to end segregation in his speech "I Have a Dream." He argues that African Americans lack basic rights and change must occur, he achieves this by his use of rhetorical techniques. He supports his claim by declaring that blacks lack basic civil rights that were guaranteed under the constitution, he then talks about the issues blacks face, he goes on to say change is needed, finally he concludes his speech arguing how everyone deserves freedom and must stay faithful that change will occur. Martin Luther King Jr’s purpose is to make segregation cease to exist and to have black and white be seen equally, in order to achieve this purpose he uses loaded words
Martin Luther King Jr.” by Robert F. Kennedy, where both talk about Martin Luther King and how he protests for freedom, because by demanding for freedom, it makes people more aware of the situation whereas if it is not, no one will really care enough to give the oppressed their freedom. According to Charles Euchner, in his book, Nobody Turn Me Around: A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington, he says on page 58 “-that gradual improvements will not satisfy blacks anymore. Conflict could turn into a bloodbath unless the American people redeem the promise of freedom.” The text evidence suggests that progressive, slow improvements will not be satisfactory, and that the conflict could become violent if the Americans do not give their people freedom. This example backs up the claim that freedom has to be demanded because their freedom has not been given to the African Americans; they had to protest for it and that there could be conflict over it, since they didn’t get their freedom easily.
Martin Luther King’s speech, “I Have a Dream” is vastly recognized as one of the best speeches ever given. His passionate demand for racial justice and an integrated society became popular throughout the Black community. His words proved to give the nation a new vocabulary to express what was happening to them. Martin was famously a pacifist, so in his speech, he advocated peaceful protesting and passively fighting against racial segregation.
The more Martin Luther King Jr. says “I have a dream” (630) and “let freedom ring” (631) with different things after each time he says each one, it shows that he has multiple examples to all of the points he is making. One of King’s examples for when he says I have a dream is “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood” (631). Martin Luther King Jr. wanted everyone, no matter the history behind them, to be able to be together and have no differences. King would say, “let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous pecks of California,” (631) he wanted there to bee freedom everywhere.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was a Baptist minister, as well as a social activist for civil rights. Dr. King is known for many things and one of those was for his famous speech, “I Have a Dream” (Biography.com, 2018). The speech was presented on the 28th day of August 1963, in Washington D.C., located at the Lincoln Memorial. During his speech, Dr. King would make references to bible verses to relay his points on equality, which also followed his belief that all race of people could live in unity through God (Americanrhetoric.com, 2018). One of the verses he used in his speech was out of the Old Testament, Isaiah 40: 4-5; “4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: 5
