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Martin Luther King, Jr's I Have A Dream

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“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. The activist Dr. King was best known for being the leader of the Civil Rights Movement that took place during the 1960s. He also was a baptist reverend that lived 39 years, since 1929 through his assassination in 1968 by the hands of James E. Ray. During his career as an activist, he gave several speeches whose main focus was freedom and liberty. One of his most famous one is “I have a dream” that took place in Washington, D.C. August 28th, 1963. There, he spoke about how people, especially the black community, needed to fight for their rights, to make changes in society in order to stop segregation, and unify people despite their race, beliefs, ethnicity, and culture.
“I Have A Dream” is considered without major debates as the best political speech in the history of the United States. It is full of biblical references concerning the formation of the United States, something that the African American population could relate to, as they were christians, adding that Martin Luther King was a pastor of a church. Something that can be classified as Logos, in other words “as logic to appeal to his audience’s common sense, beliefs and values”. As mentioned previously, he used connections from the Bible. The entire discourse about the “March on Washington” is full of biblical rhythms and parallelisms and bristles with a

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