Similarities Between Frederick Douglass And Martin Luther King Jr

Being born and raised in Vietnam, the country which citizens had been spending thousands years fighting various invaders for freedom, I was taught to be grateful for the freedom we have. That freedom was not there right after we declared independence. We had to fight for it. There was a time when the aristocrat and bourgeois were treated badly. After one night, all their properties were taken away while their houses were burned down. And, miserably, the husbands were missing and never came back. The luckier ones who survived had to flee their own country. A similar story happened in American history for black people. It was stated eloquently on the Declaration of Independence that, “All men are created equal.” However, the Negro was still being sold and treated inhumanly.
Martin Luther King Jr are the two eminent faces who spoke for the equality of black people, and for the freedom of all human beings. Douglass’s speech “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro,” and Dr. King’s speech “I Have a Dream,” continues to be relevant today. Douglass successfully employs pathos and makes the audiences feel the shame of celebrating freedom while still keeping the system of slavery, Dr. King, a hundred years later, uses repetition as a rhetorical tool to pass his hope of a united nation where black and white men can hold hands. In today’s society, when technology has been involved in almost every aspects of lives, freedom is not only about the independence of a country, or justice for a race, but also about people not being manipulated by the technology and its creators. Hence, people should stay alert to these unseen threats to protect their own