Both, Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Martin Luther King Juniors' "I Have a Dream" speech, describe their vision of America. Both of them wanted everybody to be treated equally. They did not want people to be judged by their gender, race, or religion, but they did want people to be judged by their character. However, these speeches are different by whom they were more dedicated to. Lincoln dedicated his Gettysburg Address to those who sacrificed their lives in war to keep America safe and free. Martin Luther King Junior wanted all children to never live in a world where there is segregation and hate. Although Martin Luther King Junior and Abraham Lincoln were from different time periods, they both had similarities and differences in their own visions of America.
Both of those incredible speeches are very similar to one another. First of all, they tell people that they want everybody to be
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Martin Luther King Junior said, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." They also had differences in their speeches. As you saw above, Lincoln also wanted to dedicate his speech to those who sacrificed their lives in the war to keep America safe and free. He did not want people to have died in service to this country and not get honored for it. Martin Luther King Junior wanted all children to not live in a world where there is segregation and hate. He can not possibly imagine the world where there are segregation and hatred for the rest of his children's lives, or anyone's life. Once again, even though Martin Luther King Junior and Abraham Lincoln were from different time periods, they both had similarities and differences in their own visions of America. Both leaders saw themselves as renewing the American Promise. Taken together, these two speeches made important historical milestones in the future of our
Every individual has their own definition of freedom. Depending on time, place, religion, or race, this definition varies, but essentially comes back to one point: all men, regardless of anything, are created equally, and therefore have a right to be free. "The Declaration of Independence," by Thomas Jefferson, and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" are two works addressing this concern. Although Jefferson and King led extremely different lives over 150 years apart, both faced issues of human equality that drove them to write two of the most influential works in American history.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech “I Have a Dream” and Frederick Douglass speech are similar and different by how they approach the subject and their tone of voice. The history of King and Douglass show how they became civil leaders of their times. The video on King’s speech show how many people came to listen and how King handle himself during the speech.
In the beginning of his speech Martin Luther heralds back almost one hundred years by linking the importance of the march to the Emancipation Proclamation(King 3). By doing this King puts the issue of equality into a timeline by showing that while it has been a hundred years since African Americans had been given freedom it also shows that while freedom has been granted to them there has still been very little that has happened to give the African race a better life. Not much further in his speech King say, “ This note was a promise that all men-yes, black men as well as white men-would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” (King 3) Again by taking an important article from America’s past King says that when the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution they meant for all Americans to be equal. Midway through the speech King pleads with his people to never resort to violence in the face of adversity that is handed to them by their oppressors, because King has came to realize through his own trials that the “their( referring to the white man)destiny is tied up with our destiny.”(King 3) As King’s speech progresses he tells the masses that until they have their rights be equal to those who rights are unbounded that they must not stop until they have achieved their goal. By being able to use
In class we talked about two speeches, Old Major's speech from Animal Farm and Martin Luther King Jr's “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963. Between the two speeches there are more similarities than differences. Both Old Major and Martin Luther King gave a speech with their dream to inspire others to live a better life and future. A difference is Martin Luther King Jr. wanted peace among everyone, but Old major wanted rebellion against the humans. That's just an example of what similarities and differences I will be talking about in this essay. Let's start off with the similarities.
One of the most influential speeches ever given on the earth was given on a podium at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28th 1963. The great speech was given by Martin Luther King Jr. who dedicated his time on earth to prove that all people are equal. Martin Luther used different parts of the English language to enhance the meaning of his speech and bring out the details. The different rhetorical devices, allusions to historic documents, and metaphors seemed to have brought about the emotions that King was trying to arouse in his listeners. This helped him influence his listeners towards wanting equality for all and changing what was happening in the present so they didn't repeat things in the past.
He wisely used the issue of slavery to appeal to both the abolitionists and to Negrophobes, Northerners who were afraid of living side-by- side with Negroes and competing with them for jobs. For example, on July 10th of 1959, Lincoln gave a speech in Chicago, a primarily abolitionist town. Lincoln stated that inequality was unnecessary in this country. If all men were created equal then were should look past race, saying, “Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal” (Hofstadter, pg. 148).
One of the greatest speakers for the black civil rights movement was Martin Luther King, Jr. Two of his pieces that stand out the most, was the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and “I Have a Dream”. The Letter From Birmingham Jail is exactly that, it’s a letter that King had wrote while he was in jail, to a group of clergy members who disapproved of his action in Birmingham City. I Have a Dream was speech that was delivered in Washington, DC at Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. This speech was written to inspire people to look beyond themselves and also demanded the country unity focusing on equality for all without focusing on the color of their skin; King also wanted the people to take a stand in a nonviolence manner. The Letter from Birmingham Jail and I Have a Dream, have many similarities and differences between the two pieces.
Martin Luther King uses a lot of repetition in his speech. They are scattered throughout but very close. One of the repetitions in his speech is “I have a dream.” He uses this phrase to show what he sees in the future of America. One of the phrases he uses with it is: “I have a dream that one day this nation will and live out the true meaning of its creed: we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” Another is “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their nature. I have a dream today.” (King, M. L. Jr. (1963, Aug.28) Para 12) Two other repetitions he uses is “Let freedom ring” and “Free at last.” (King, M. L. Jr. (1963, Aug.28) Para 16&17)
One hundred years later, after The Gettysburg Address, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his inspirational “I Have a Dream” speech. Both speeches follow the same general idea for both of their time periods. Dr. King’s speech and The Gettysburg Address are similar and different due to their appeals, purpose, and structure.
Alleged by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his “I Have A Dream” speech on August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. Dr. King said “This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. Meaning there shall be equality between one another. Dr. King grew up around pastors in a Baptist Church, so when he gave his speeches he sounded like a preacher. He was a well-educated person who graduated from Boston University and received his Doctorate degree. Plus he was a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race. Being a strong worker and having knowledge of civil rights made him more of a confident and convincing speaker. Therefore, In Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream” speech, he pointed out to African Americans, that in the near future the African Americans would have equal rights and liberty like all the other Caucasians have. In this speech I have found Dr. King using logos, ethos, and pathos to get his attention across about equality and to make his speech sound more effective. Out of the three rhetorical appeals I have found that Dr. King used ethos the most predominately followed by the second most effective, pathos, and how King is a convincing speaker to his audience.
In Martin Luther Kings Jr speech his central idea that he wants people to know is that everybody needs to be treated the same way. Examples of this is that black people should go to the same school as white people, or have the same drinking fountain. This is also unfair because the white schools had better textbooks and teacher than the black schools. I like Martin Luther King's speech because he affected more people and the government, he was also talking about how everybody should have equal rights and he did this by making people march or protest to win their rights. The most important main idea is that everybody should have equal rights, and Martin Luther King want colored people to have the same rights as the whites. The central idea was
The speeches written by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. are different because Lincoln and King wrote for different reasons. For example, in the I Have a Dream Speech, Martin Luther King Jr. says “... in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.” and “... a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of
Lincoln's “Gettysburg Address” and Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech are both similar and different in many ways. Do you want to know why these speeches are still influential today but are both far apart in time? I'll tell you. Both speeches are very influential to every generation that has come after it. These important speeches both are on the same topic on freedom, both are monumental speeches that impact today’s society, and use rhetorical devices.
The speeches “I have a Dream” and “Gettysburg Address” was written and told by the most important men in history; Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. These significant men, even though wrote and presented their speeches almost a hundred years apart, both had similar ideas in mind when dealing with the country’s issues; Liberty, Integrity and Equality for not only African-Americans but for the nation as a whole.
"I Have A Dream" and "Victory Speech" are two amazingly powerful speeches delivered by two big leaders of the American nation: Martin Luther King and Barack Obama. Both of these speeches are united in the hopes of creating a better country and achieving the American dream. The two discourses are an introduction to a change or to an improvement. Although these speeches are fairly similar, their purposes and audience are different.