Rhetorical Analysis Of I Have A Dream Speech
I Have a Dream The month of February marks the beginning of Black History Month which is celebrated by all African Americans both here and abroad. It’s a month that reminds African Americans how far they had to come to get their freedom and how many important lives were lost. One of those lives lost was Martin Luther King, Jr., a man who fought during the Civil Rights Movement. On August 28, 1963, King delivered one of the greatest speeches in American history, a speech that changed the entire nation’s views on African Americans. In his “I Have a Dream” speech, King speaks about how the end of slavery did not provide African Americans with equal rights. His speech also highlighted how African Americans live in a society with discrimination
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In his speech King uses many repeating phrases, such as “One hundred years later.” By repeating this phrase, King is emphasizes the length of time that African Americans have been suffering. As he said in his speech, “One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination” and “One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.” Also he repeats “Let freedom ring.” “Let freedom ring,” is a rally cry for everyone across the nation to stop being unjust. King said, “Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring” and “When we let freedom right, when we let it ring… we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children…, will be able to join hands and sing in the word of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God almighty, we are free at last!” Finally, one repetition made King speech so popular is “I Have a Dream.” I have a dream, King emphasizing hope, a future that everybody would be treated equally. As he said in his speech, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” and “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.” By using repetition King made understandable for his
In his speech King uses many repeating phrases, such as “One hundred years later.” By repeating this phrase, King is emphasizes the length of time that African Americans have been suffering. As he said in his speech, “One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination” and “One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.” Also he repeats “Let freedom ring.” “Let freedom ring,” is a rally cry for everyone across the nation to stop being unjust. King said, “Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring” and “When we let freedom right, when we let it ring… we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children…, will be able to join hands and sing in the word of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God almighty, we are free at last!” Finally, one repetition made King speech so popular is “I Have a Dream.” I have a dream, King emphasizing hope, a future that everybody would be treated equally. As he said in his speech, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” and “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.” By using repetition King made understandable for his