Appeals In I Have A Dream Speech

In the "I Have a Dream" speech Martin Luther King uses emotional, ethical, and logical appeals. He uses theses appeals to make people feel something and to support his thoughts and reasoning. He uses emotional appeals throughout his speech to make people feel something about his speech and about the situation he is talking about. "This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of the withering injustice." This quote explains how millions of people who are slaves have hope, the way he says it ,makes you feel down/sad. This is because people were forced into slavery and they still had this hope, also because he uses seared in the flames which makes his speech stronger. It also gives more feelings about the situation. "One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of the segregation and the chains of discrimination." In this quote he uses emotional appeals because this makes you feel hope and bad for what happened in the past. Martin Luther King adds more emotion into his speech by saying the chains of discrimination because this makes you believe discrimination as holding people back and holding people from have the freedom they deserve. …show more content…
"This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white mn, would be guaranteed the unalienable right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." He uses the Constitution as an example to back up his speech, this is logical because it is logic that all men and women were guaranteed to be equal and yet there they were not equal. "It is obvious today that the America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned." This quote is logical because it is obvious, meaning logic because the note was not being in play (Not how it was suppose to