Rhetorical Analysis Essay On Martin Luther King
Long Essay 1
Throughout the entirety of this essay, King pleads with the community and society as a whole to stand back and look at the situation he finds himself in. A society that is crutched by the injustice of segregation. Weakened by the laws that are established in places such as Birmingham. Beaten down by the commonality of police brutality to the African American man and women. A society that is far from the ideals of “all men are created equal”. King writes this essay to persuade individuals to change their thinking, or change their actions. He lays out what he thinks of society, and where it should go. He identifies misconceptions people have and how actions need to be taken. Martin Luther King Jr. Realizes heavily on public reason in hopes that they will understand his point of view and polarize their thinking in his direction. Only then, can a society be built on true justice and morality. Kings starts with an idea that there are four basic steps to a nonviolent campaign. “Collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist, negotiation, self purification, and direct action (King).” He does a great job in this essay pointing out the problems and determining that injustice very much does exist. King states, while in a jail cell, that the very reason he is …show more content…
“A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of god (King).” Basically King is saying a just law is one that everyone can agree on to be morally right. Justice Rawls states justice as “The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.” However, the more complicated question that Dr. King dissects is : What makes a law unjust. King suggests that an unjust law does not match up with morality. If a law degrades human personality it is unjust, giving the segregated a false sense of inferiority. (King). He also suggests that if the minority of a given law had no say in the democratic process of making this law, it is in no way
Throughout the entirety of this essay, King pleads with the community and society as a whole to stand back and look at the situation he finds himself in. A society that is crutched by the injustice of segregation. Weakened by the laws that are established in places such as Birmingham. Beaten down by the commonality of police brutality to the African American man and women. A society that is far from the ideals of “all men are created equal”. King writes this essay to persuade individuals to change their thinking, or change their actions. He lays out what he thinks of society, and where it should go. He identifies misconceptions people have and how actions need to be taken. Martin Luther King Jr. Realizes heavily on public reason in hopes that they will understand his point of view and polarize their thinking in his direction. Only then, can a society be built on true justice and morality. Kings starts with an idea that there are four basic steps to a nonviolent campaign. “Collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist, negotiation, self purification, and direct action (King).” He does a great job in this essay pointing out the problems and determining that injustice very much does exist. King states, while in a jail cell, that the very reason he is …show more content…
“A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of god (King).” Basically King is saying a just law is one that everyone can agree on to be morally right. Justice Rawls states justice as “The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.” However, the more complicated question that Dr. King dissects is : What makes a law unjust. King suggests that an unjust law does not match up with morality. If a law degrades human personality it is unjust, giving the segregated a false sense of inferiority. (King). He also suggests that if the minority of a given law had no say in the democratic process of making this law, it is in no way