Rhetorical Analysis Of Dr. Martin Luther King's Beyond Vietnam

In Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”, King asserts that the war in Vietnam is a “symptom” (7) of a much larger disease that affects the “American spirit” (7). The disease King mentions is causing destruction where ever it is found, and in the case of the Vietnam war, it has led to their oppression and the death of people. In the section, Strange Liberators, King states, “They move sadly and apathetically as we heard them off the land of their fathers into concentration camps where minimal social needs are rarely met. They know they must move or be destroyed by our bombs” (8). King believed that the disease was leading the United States to take drastic actions against the Vietnamese people. The U.S.

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On April 4th, 1967, at Riverside Church in New York, a speech was given and the silence was broken. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s speech was given to persuade everyone into believing that american involvement during the Vietnam War was wrong. Throughout Martin Luther King Jr’s speech he builds a very strong argument, against american involvement during the Vietnam War, by using different writing appeals and elements.

In Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech “Beyond Vietnam—A Time to Break Silence” (1967), Dr. King asserts that the war in Vietnam is totally immoral and has far reaching negative implications not only for Vietnam, but for The United States and the rest of the World as well. Dr. King’s purpose is to make the church leaders he is speaking to aware that the time has come for them to speak out loudly in opposition of the war in Vietnam. He offers many practical reasons for the opposition, as well as spiritual and moral reasons. He then outlines the history of the war in Vietnam, showing that he is not simply preaching about religious ideals. He also makes an

King's response to the unjustness of America's participation in the Vietnam is first capitalized by the claim that the importance of winning and paying for the war, was far more important to the Government during this time than any other discriminations, protests, or acts of unjustness that should have been paid a close eye to. King begins by proclaiming that through all of the work put into the efforts of equality, have disintegrated through the precedence of the the War. Through the usage of metaphors and extreme diction, King was able to set the tone of outrage and disappointment he sees within the current events. By saying that the Vietnam War was a "demonic destructive suction tube" in terms of how much attention and money was put into it, King effectively encourages the audience to take into consideration the mangled society and the drainage of the funds.

Vietnam was the site of one of the most brutal and destructive wars and America’s self-proclaimed liberators and protectors of democracy. Fighter of liberty and equality both at home and abroad is the reason why American intervenes. President Johnson Administration thought that United States authority in Vietnam was the way to make sure and prevent the spread communism to Vietnam and any other nation states to. To show that United States is will to go to war to communism at all cost. The Vietnam War had cost United Sates so much, untold billions of dollars spent as well, but what make matter worse is the thousands of American lives taken by 1967 growing numbers of Americans were becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the war, the increasingly

Martin Luther King Jr’s, “Declaration of Independence from War in Vietnam” speech shows different tones through the speech including: enraged, candid and uplifting. MLK Jr., expresses his feelings towards the Vietnam War. He knows that the war was fighting for something in Vietnam, but they can’t even make it happen in their own country.

“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War.” –Richard Nixon, 1985. Since the Vietnam War, there has been almost fifty years of remembrance, various readings, and the publication of military documents. However, Richard Nixon’s quote still has a certain veracity. The United States has fought in many wars, but none have compelled Americans to question our motives like the Vietnam War. The United States should not have gotten involved in Vietnam, because it was illegal, unjustified, and unethical.

The US initially viewed the Vietnam War simply as a testing ground for the new ‘flexible response’ policy of dealing with international aggression. However as the war progressed it quickly became evident that the war would become a serious problem for the existing and future US administration. The war was not, by any means, a victory for the United States and did not accomplish any of the goals set like deterring future aggressions, enhancing US credibility or ‘saving’ Vietnam.

On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King spoke publicly in New York, New York about USA's involvement in the Vietnam war. He strongly felt that the U.S. should stop immediately because it went against everything the U.S. is all about. The war in Vietnam was causing millions of innocent people to die, and Martin Luther King was fed up with the way we had intruded the basic human rights of the Vietnamese people. In Martin Luther King's "A Time to Break Silence" speech, Dr.King used refutations, reflections, and requests in order to effectively state why the war in Vietnam should come to a halt.

1. A year to the day Martin Luther King was assassinated, he spoke out against the Vietnam War. April 4th 1967 at Riverside Church, in New York City, King delivered “Beyond Vietnam”. Although the “I Have a Dream” speech is his more recognizable speech, “Beyond Vietnam” was extremely controversial. King, realized could not talk peace if he was addressing American government oppressive imperialism. King knew that the same black men that the government was denying rights, were being sent to die, fight and kill people who were struggling for the same rights. King could not preach non-violence at the American homefront and keep quiet as Vietnamese villages and children were being destroyed. One of King's closest advisers, Stanley Levison, warned

In the speech, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, by Rev. Martin Luther King, the world is experiencing symptoms of violence, poverty, and injustice. An example of this would be the Vietnam war. These symptoms however, all trace back to a larger disease. This disease comes from the American people and their values. These values are causing the suffering of the rest of the world, for the nations that are in revolutions against injustices, and communism. The reason, due to this disease, the united states has a history of being on the wrong side of revolutions, having not only been on the wrong side, but have taken violent action against these revolutions. As king quoted from John F. Kennedy, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible

In response to the significant impacts that the Vietnam brought, Martin Luther King argues that American Involvement in Vietnam War is unjust because it not only destruct the hopes and the peaces at home, but gives our generations a lesson that violence is desirable. By virtue of employing tactical reasoning, providing convincing evidence, and using strong feelings, the writer construct a highly plausible argument.

The United States intervention in Vietnam is seen by the world as America’s greatest loss and longest war. Before the start of the war in Vietnam, the thought of the United States losing this war was unheard of because America was technologically superior, no country in south East Asia could contend with them. Lyndon B. Johnson announced that he would not be the president to allow South East Asia to go Communist . Why the United States lost the war has been a huge debate since the end of the war, because there were so many factors affecting why they lost; the war was a loss politically, after losing support from not only the American public but also the South Vietnamese and losing a political mandate for the war by 1973, when the last

«I never fell for Vietnam», sings Axl Rose in the Guns’N’Roses song «Civil War». As seen in this extract from his speech «Beyond Vietnam», delivered on April 4th, 1967, Martin Luther King didn’t either.