Rhetorical Analysis Of Martin Luther King's Speech

If he had sneezed, Dr. Martin Luther King would not have been able to tell his speech “I’ve been to the mountaintop”. Martin Luther King, a very inspirational person, had an empowering and determined attitude in his final speech before passing. He battled for what he wanted and spoke up non-violently with his followers. He felt the need to fight for the sanitation workers, for his followers civil right, and for their equality.

With every situation, he tried to make a solution. In King's speech he mentioned the sanitation workers strike. He desired justice for the workers because the press left out that “1,300 sanitation workers are on strike, that Memphis is not being fair to them, and that Mayor Loeb was in dire need of a doctor,” King's attitude towards that was very determined to help his people and march again. He made a nonviolent movement in disarming police force and would not be stopped by anything. For example, he stated that “in Birmingham, Alabama, him and his people would “move out of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church day after day” and stand up to Bull Connor. They were attacked by dogs, sprayed by fire hoses, thrown into paddy wagons, but that didn't stop them. They would sing
According to the first amendment, the people have the freedom of speech, press, religion, and the right to protest. King reckons that the constitution is denying the privileges that come with it. An injunction came upon them. He asserts that, “all we say to America is to be true to what you said on paper.” King feels it is necessary that his followers should have the same rights as all the other people do, the privileges for those rights shouldn’t apply just for the rich. He also says, “in 1963, when black people of Birmingham, Alabama, aroused the conscience of this nation and brought into being the Civil Rights Bill,” and King was alive and able to fight with his