MLK Commentary: The Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
MLK Commentary: The Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
Martin Luther King was a powerful, memorable, eloquent and educated civil rights activist. He passionately promoted the drive and push for peaceful non-violent protesting. His speeches were inspirational, charismatic and effective and the passion and power in his delivery set the pacing of the emotional experience. He used many rhetorical devices along with his determination to get across the feeling and flavour of perpetuated slavery of black people in the continued racial bias, their rising up against this and the gradual realization of guilt in the white people who stood by and did nothing. He had a dream.
On the 10th of December 1964, Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. After receiving this award he delivered an acceptance speech and took the opportunity to convey in the minds of those present, the gut-wrenching and inescapable truth of racial injustice and bias in America and around the world. In this section of his speech he goes on to speak about the ambiguous future of mankind, the …show more content…
In the first stanza of the speech he says, ‘...It has led to a new civil rights bill...’ which implores the inadequacy of the old civil rights bill and the racial injustice of America. King uses antithesis when he postulates ‘...starless midnight of racism...bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood...’ these two expressions are totally opposite to each other, and contradict each other. The starless midnight of racism suggests the segregation of the negroes and the whites and the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood explores the idea that all will be well and it is daybreak, the sun is rising, we have to overcome midnight and awaken to tomorrow, a day filled with peace and
Martin Luther King was a powerful, memorable, eloquent and educated civil rights activist. He passionately promoted the drive and push for peaceful non-violent protesting. His speeches were inspirational, charismatic and effective and the passion and power in his delivery set the pacing of the emotional experience. He used many rhetorical devices along with his determination to get across the feeling and flavour of perpetuated slavery of black people in the continued racial bias, their rising up against this and the gradual realization of guilt in the white people who stood by and did nothing. He had a dream.
On the 10th of December 1964, Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. After receiving this award he delivered an acceptance speech and took the opportunity to convey in the minds of those present, the gut-wrenching and inescapable truth of racial injustice and bias in America and around the world. In this section of his speech he goes on to speak about the ambiguous future of mankind, the …show more content…
In the first stanza of the speech he says, ‘...It has led to a new civil rights bill...’ which implores the inadequacy of the old civil rights bill and the racial injustice of America. King uses antithesis when he postulates ‘...starless midnight of racism...bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood...’ these two expressions are totally opposite to each other, and contradict each other. The starless midnight of racism suggests the segregation of the negroes and the whites and the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood explores the idea that all will be well and it is daybreak, the sun is rising, we have to overcome midnight and awaken to tomorrow, a day filled with peace and