Martin Luther King was arguably the most influential African American in the Civil Rights Movement. His famous works include his Letter from Birmingham Jail, and possibly the most important speech in the 20th century, his “I Have a Dream” speech, In August 1963. The purpose for his historic speech would be to call whites and blacks together to make peace and equality for all. King uses language techniques like repetition, juxtapositions, and allusion to lay forward his plan for justice. King
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Thesis Statement: In Malcolm X The Autobiography and Martin Luther King “Letter from Birmingham Jail” influenced the African American through hatred, nonviolence and religion. Firstly, in Malcolm X Autobiography one can see the expression of hatred and violence that influenced the African American. Malcom X talked about White Americans in a negative light. Malcolm X referred to White American as being evil and the devil. Malcolm X says; “[…] which opened my eyes gradually, then wider and wider
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Throughout “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, King makes a similar statement about civil disobedience and the law. He states that civil disobedience must occur after four steps are taken. Collection of facts to determine whether there are injustices, negotiation, self purification, and direct action must occur before civil disobedience transpires. He argues that “there is nothing wrong in having an ordinance which requires a permit for a parade. But such an ordinance becomes an injustice when it is
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The Birmingham letter from Martin Luther king Jr. addresses the ongoing injustice in the city of Birmingham which has been known as the most violent city against the Negro community. Martin Luther king claims “that whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly”. By all means, he believes that “anyone who lives in the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds”.To outsiders he refers to the Negro community in which the city of Birmingham have demonstrated
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In Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letters to Birmingham,” he uses figurative language and literary devices to show the effects of segregation and to inform the eight white religious leaders that it was time to act. By using figurative language he helps the readers get a more detail and visual description of his purpose. His purpose for writing the letter was to enlighten the white religious leaders and show them that the church should be involved. Segregation was an act against God and it was time to
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King incudes two seminal United States documents in his letter for various reasons. These two documents are the US Constitution and The Declaration of Independence, he includes these two documents because they are wo very well-known documents and mostly Americans can relate to them and know what they are about. By referring to these documents King uses the rhetoric appeal ethos by citing credible sources. King states that they will win their freedom because of the sacred heritage of our nation (King
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In 1963 Martin Luther king Jr was arrested and sent to jail. In jail he received a letter from the clergymen agreeing to his vision on helping the African American people, but they just degreed with his methods of how he wanted to help the African Americans. In his letter I came across some quotes that help explain more. In his letter he talks the unfair treatment the Negroes received. “Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts” (MKL 254). Martin Luther king knew that there
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amidst White and African American people. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. decided to begin a protest against it in which he believed the treatment was unfair and "injustice" however, he went to jail for doing so and the Alabama Clergymen wrote him a letter to call it off, Dr. King responded. In the response letter by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the iconic civil rights leader seeks to utilize emotional, logical, as well as ethical appeals to defends the nonviolent resistance effort. Emotional appeal,
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As Martin Luther King said “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people”. King teaches, spreads that it is just as horrible to witness oppression and let it continue uncontested. Cesar Chavez expands on this idea in an article he wrote that argues how non-violence resistance to oppression is more powerful than violence. In his argument he uses many convincing rhetorical devices to develop his argument such as ethos and rhetorical
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Dr. King wrote with the literary device ethos through out the opening of his letter. The phrase, "I think I should give the reason for my being in Birmingham" increase the trust he's building. This phrase causes the reader to listen to his reason and they'll know he's open about why he's imprisoned. Dr. King's letter reveals the " eighty-five affiliate organizations" he runs. he is a very busy person and he was traveling to help the Human Right act that one branch was hosting. The third paragraph
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