August 28 1963

In reflecting on yesterday's Martin Luther King (MLK) Day I got to thinking about what was going on in our country. Now this all happened before I was born so my narrative and this blog are based on reading history. If people read this and want to educate me please do. 

As best I see there were huge revolts going on with the racism and segregation issue in America. At this time there was a man named Martin Luther King Jr. who delivered a speech that has impacted history forever called “I have a dream”.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a very powerful speaker and knew the art of persuasion very well. He used all kinds of rhetorical skills. The one that was most common was how he used anaphora. To get his point across of how that African Americans needed civil rights and the right to be free he would often use anaphora to get across his point. For example, “ 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 conduct of their character. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day…”. With this example of using the phrase I have a dream repeatedly helps other people access the same portal of emotion that he had. It makes the audience want to dream and feel as he does. It lets their imagination soar with his.

Martin was constantly using emotional words and portraying an image of freedom to help others want to seek the higher road rather than the “flames of withering injustice” that had been plaguing the nation beforehand. After the stirring frequency of his use of I had a dream, he portrays that dream with even thicker language, “ Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill in Mississippi. From every mountainside. Let freedom ring and when this happens…And when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at Last! Free at Last! Thank God Almighty, We’re Free at Last!”

It is hard for any person reading this to not be convinced by Martin’s emotion in his language, his use of the Constitution, and how he defends freedom for the American nation.

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