Martin Luther King Jr Emotional Response

No speech elicits an emotional response like the “I have a Dream Speech”. The point is that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. does not try to appeal to people’s logical side. Minorities wanted the conflict to end. King is willing to take the fight to his grave. He protests even though he knows he will go to jail. He brought nonviolent conflict resolution to the United States of America, he fought for what was right. He talks about history in terms that everyone will have an emotional response, especially those who are protesting. King is using decades of trained skills as an orator to rile up the crowd by appealing to their emotions.

The racial equality had not been achieved. The United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and sequent amendments was a promise not fulfilled. A
One hundred years before the slaves were freed in the south and they still had were shackled to the rock of segregation. Then he says that “This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice”. He speaks about the duality of energy that gives us life. It turns out that preservation is the opposite of destruction, not creation. Then he goes on to say that “It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.” This guy is just full of emotion. After all, he is a public orator, after all. Think about this for a second. Imagine this was a thesis. It would not work. He is stating facts. Except those facts are about their ancestors, they themselves did not go through a long night of captivity. They were economically discriminated against yes, but he is still ramping up their emotions past any point where they had been before. He takes it to the top and does not