Martin Luther King's It Began With A Dream?

| Martin Luther says he has a dream. He dreams that one day all people will truly be equal. He dreams that white people and black people will be able to live peacefully together. Martin Luther does this to inspire the audience. He wants to instill that same dream into every one in the crowd.

Near the end of Martin Luther King’s speech a gospel singer Mahalia Jackson shouted to Dr. King saying, “Tell them about the dream, Martin”. At this point Dr. King stopped reading the speech and expressed his inner feelings saying “I have a dream..”(Mlk, 4). He continued to tell the crowd of his dream for the Negros to be free and equal and that they would be able to live happily and do as they pleased. He had a dream that America would live out the meaning of the constitution stating “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal”. He tells the crowd that at the end “We are free at last”. Dr. King’s choice of words and the tone in which he delivers his speech is enticing and pleasing to the crowd of America.

According to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s, “I Have a Dream” speech, Blacks were denied their equal rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (I Have a Dream). The Emancipation Proclamation, written by Abraham Lincoln, supposedly freed all slaves but Blacks were still treated with disrespect. Blacks needed to have equal rights for many reasons.

I have a dream that one day everyone will understand what Martin Luther King Jr said in his infamous speech on August 28, 1963, and recognize the power and beauty in his words. In the “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King, Jr. persuades the citizens of the United States that they should no longer accept segregation, and all men should be created equal, as our Constitution states. In this fight though, we can not use violence, but use the power of words, and not stop until every human being is free. This speech was given in a time where black people were made to think that they were equal with white people, when in actuality, they were “separate but equal” which is not the same thing. This is when called segregation flourished and eventually, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had enough of this injustice and he spoke out to the citizens of the United States and the world to fight for freedom. This speech used all of the rhetorical devices: ethos, logos, and pathos, and it used such powerful, discrete language that not only persuaded the reader, but entertained them, drawing in his audience after every word. Its rhythm made it stay with people, haunting them. He truly made it clear of the awful ways the African American people were being treated, connecting to them, making them feel something, making the reader want to listen to him and follow King with every step he took.

To begin, Martin Luther King Jr.s early life was filled with excitement and a sad tragedy, that people may not have known happened. He was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia and was the middle child of Michael King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. This was the birth of someone who will make a change and not just for himself, but for everyone. Martin Luther King Jr. was about twelve years old when he attempted suicide by jumping out a two story window. He attempted suicide because his grandmother had recently passed away due to a heart attack(Martin Luther King Jr.). Martin also earned his bachelor of divinity degree in

Martin Luther King had a dream.  “A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream

The Civil War was definitely not America’s finest hour. From other places in the world, we might have looked foolish, fighting against each other. In our perspective, it was not foolish. We fought brother against brother, friend against friend, Father against son. War was the only topic on our minds. But for what? The right to keep our laziness, against the right of freedom, already established years and years ago? Thousands upon thousands of lives lost, because we were too good to do our own housework? We fought as a union for the millions of lives lost before us, who were captured, put in chains, and forced to be treated like animals. Racism was wild among the states, even after the most awful war in American history

Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, prominent figures in the fight for racial equality, took approaches to achieve their goal. Dr King’s message in his speech, “I Have A Dream,” was to achieve integration through non-violent civil disobedience. The speech was very inspirational and optimistic. As a child, King developed a sense of what was right and wrong in the world very quickly.

On 28th August 1963, during the rally in the nation’s capital, Dr. King delivered his most famous speech, known as the “I Have a Dream” speech, on the steps of the Abraham Lincoln Memorial. Portions of the speech, that are frequently quoted, including, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal’ … 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.”

Gandhi's quote fits a lot of people in the past and present. Many people have a change that they want in this world but it will be very hard to happen. For example, world peace will never happen unless you're the only country on the Earth.

Martin Luther King Jr was an awesome man. He had his ups and downs. How king early life was. The million man march. The way he died was by fighting for what he believed in.

A civil rights leader by the name of Reverend (PBS, 2016) Martin Luther King Jr. changed the world he occupied and changed the future course of the United States of America by advocating for desegregation. Martin Luther King Junior was on a mission to end the segregation of the African American community. Segregation was the post result of slavery throughout the United States of America which enslaved Africans. He challenged the status quo of the time. Protesting peacefully and advocating for social change is what he proposed. The United States and the south in particular had feelings of prejudice, racism and hatred towards people of color that resulted in the Jim Crow Laws (PBS, 2016). Martin Luther King Jr. gave the “I have a dream” speech and explained how he saw the world through the eyes of an African American in 1963 that still echoes through the modern era. He was trying to persuade us to believe that a change of oppression towards blacks is achievable through nonviolence. A gunshot will challenge the peaceful speech for many followers. (Kagan, 1996)This rhetorical analysis will be covering the Kairos of Martin Luther King’s speech. Thesis: Despite Martin Luther King Jr.’s risk to life and arrests, he was willing to state “I have a Dream”, for all to hear because his main purpose was to create a peaceful unity between black and white Americans. The south would continue to subjective African Americans in the United States by enacting the “separate but equal” status

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” (bms.co.in)

In 1965, I joined the march with Martin Luther Jr. king for changing the law because the police arrested and killed African-American people. So I feel bad for them who felt bad when police killed black people. I just want to solve the solution to make the law change the rule without split out between white and black people. And also I don't like to see how police hurt black people by police weapon stick and other weapons. The march was the first time marching because marchers want to stop the police killing and hurting African-American people. And I heard most white people cried at marchers because police hurt African-American and it’s really sad. Martin Luther Jr. king started marching with white and black people.

At first glance, one could think that the “I have a Dream” speech, by Martin Luther King Junior, is simply about black rights, but his speech is so much more. King has many strategies to reach the speech’s main goal of equality, which includes talking about what the blacks did not get from the government, to the south becoming fair and peaceful place for blacks. King intensifies these points using metaphors that are easy to visualize, contrasting antithetical sentences, and allusions some of the greatest works of writing in the United States. King uses many metaphors and similes to illustrate his point of equality. He uses “America has defaulted on their promissory note,” to draw attention to the fact that the founders of the US had said that everyone was guaranteed certain unalienable rights.