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Rhetorical Analysis Of I Have A Dream Speech

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Reverend Martin Luther King Junior’s “I Have a Dream” speech revealed his dream that one day all ethnicities, religions and social groups could coexist without conflict. A dream that one day majorities and minorities could coexist without segregation, without police brutality, and finally without racism. Reverend King in his historic speech quotes the Declaration of Independence , “ This (promissory) note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the unalienable right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” King is trying to convey the message that the American negro, after being freed from the brutal hands of their Masters, were only freed to the brutal hands of segregation. They were freed with a promise that the negro would …show more content…

They were truly freed into a world of racism, segregation, prejudice, inequality, police brutality, and racial injustice. Reverend King quotes the Declaration of Independence to apply the ideals that this country was founded upon and was being violated with all racial injustices. Reverend King knew these injustices was compromising the foundation, of the house that is this country. Reverend King also stated, “America has defaulted on this promissory note.” King felt as if the American people had defaulted back to the injustice that they faced when they were still England’s 13 colonies. This is also shows how frustrated and disappointed Reverend King was in America and how it treated the minorities. This made Reverend King frustrated because he knew that the American people could do much much better in the way they treated the minority. He was speaking to the majority about how much better they could be. How much better America could be! When Reverend Martin Luther King Jr gave his historic “I have a Dream” speech he was telling America that it was compromising the foundation that the house stood on. America was compromising the foundation of the house the American people lived under. The foundation that we laid in the struggle to become a independent

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