Throughout the 60’s, the Civil Rights Movement took charge in the U.S. and was heavily led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his ideas of demonstrating nonviolence. On the tenth anniversary of MLK Jr.’s death, labor union organizer and civil rights leader Cesar Chavez published an article championing MLK Jr.’s ideas of nonviolence. In his article, Chavez utilizes contrasting diction and inclusive language to emphasize the importance of nonviolence in the hopes of calling his audience to participate in meaningful nonviolent action. Firstly, Chavez employs contrasting diction throughout the article, to illustrate the effectiveness of nonviolence. Chavez states that nonviolence “supports” the people and “provides” “opportunities” which are done so …show more content…
Chavez further emphasizes that violent actions “escalate” quickly and only hurt the movement by worsening tensions between people. Chavez’s use of negative contrast forces the audience to understand that violence does not help reach the goals of the Civil Rights Movement, but instead makes the problem worse. Overall, Chavez employs contrasting diction to motivate the audience to understand the importance of nonviolence and implement nonviolence when they want to make a change. Furthermore, Chavez uses inclusive language throughout his speech in order to demonstrate that all people are needed in the nonviolent fight for equality. Chavez talks about how “we (the audience) are convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence” and that “if we are committed” then “we will beat” the problem. Chavez intentionally uses “we” and includes the audience to push them to feel connected and inspired by nonviolent actions Through his direct inclusion to the audience, Chavez creates a unionized group that will support the nonviolent movement
¬¬¬Though most American people claim to seek peace, the United States remains entwined with both love and hate for violence. Regardless of background or personal beliefs, the vast majority of Americans enjoy at least one activity that promotes violence whether it be professional fighting or simply playing gory video games. Everything is all well and good until this obsession with violence causes increased frequency of real world crimes. In the article, “Is American Nonviolence Possible” Todd May proposes a less standard, more ethical, fix to the problem at hand. The majority of the arguments brought up make an appeal to the pathos of the reader with a very philosophical overall tone.
Utilizing paradox, Chavez describes the effectiveness of nonviolent protest to his audience. Recalling the achievements of MLK, Chavez claims that King “learned how to successfully fight hatred and violence with the unstoppable power of nonviolence.” This quote demonstrates
By using diction and repetition, Cesar Chavez emphases the need to use nonviolence during moments of injustice. The rhetorical choices made in this argument draw forth feelings of understanding and cause the readers to think deeper into Chaves' point of view. The purpose is to carry a message that shows the power of nonviolence and what it brings to the world. People quickly follow the straight, bloody path of force and violence, rather than thinking deeper in search for the winding yet cleaner path. As human beings, we crave the freedom and power we believe was bestowed upon us by God. We will fight tooth and nail, even threw the deaths of many, in order to achieve these trivial things.
In the article, published on the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez invokes the ideas of Dr. King and advocates for nonviolent resistance. Utilizing a determined tone throughout, he asserts that nonviolence will accomplish the goals of civil rights activists. By using contrasting diction to distinguish nonviolent action and violent action, he is able to reason for nonviolent virtues. With the use of rhetorical strategies, Chavez is able to drive his argument for nonviolent resistance. Chavez begins by recalling the power of nonviolence as demonstrated by Dr. King, who lived and taught essential ingredients for active nonviolence until the day he died.
In Cesar Chavez’s article “He Showed us the Way”, Chavez talks about Martin Luther King’s practices, how he stands with his nonviolent teachings and how king believed hate cannot driven out hate. Chavez explains how being nonviolent helped many members of the Civil Rights Movement get what they wanted. Throughout the article, Chavez uses religious and historical allusion, to show how nonviolence can be the best route to achieve what they want.
Cesar Chavez was a Hispanic migrant worker who fought for the rights of other migrant farm workers. His strategy for fighting inequality was through nonviolent strikes, boycotts, and marches. In this interview of him by a Christian magazine, Chavez uses logical and religious appeals, and allusions to justify his usage of nonviolent resistance in order to gain civil rights.
Cesar Chavez published an article in a religious magazine on the tenth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death. Chavez’s message is delivered with a humble yet serious tone, as he shows compassion in his writing to emphasize his purpose, which is to bring attention to the importance of non-violent acts over violent acts, and to overall strive to gain the support of his audience, which generally those devoted to helping those in need. The persona of the author helps the audience create a stronger connection with and be further persuaded by Chavez because the audience can infer that he has experienced and is a strong supporter himself of nonviolence by the use of his examples and his points of view. By using rhetorical strategies such
In Cesar Chavez’s article, he uses many rhetorical devices to help give the reader a better understanding of how important nonviolence vs violence is. Chavez explains how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi have endowed reasons of nonviolence worth following.
Cesar Chavez uses morals and his audience fear of destruction to justify his stance on non-violent protests . Martin Luther King jr was an activist and civil rights leader that did not use violence to get his point across like many other activists at that time. Cesar Chavez wrote on the anniversary of his death explaining why using nonviolence is the way to advocate rights for those in need. His article was put in a religious organization that helped people who were in need of help. Cesar Chavez uses morals as a way to appeal to the religious side of his audience. Cesar Chavez also uses the fear of losing power to prove that doing nonviolent protests are the right way to spread his cause.
Martin Luther King, Jr. advocated nonviolence to suppress oppression in his essay, “The Power of Nonviolent Action.” King's factual and reasoned approach is intended to win his adversaries over by appealing to their consciences. King realized that the best strategy to liberate African-Americans and gain them justice was to use nonviolent forms of resistance. He wanted to eliminate the use of violence as a means to manage and establish cooperative ways of interacting. Moreover, King states that the “oppressed people must organize themselves into a militant and nonviolent mass movement” in order to achieve the goal of integration. The oppressed must “convince the oppressors that all he seeks is justice, for both himself and the white man” (King, 345). Furthermore, King agreed with Gandhi that if a law is unjust, it is the duty of the oppressed to break the law, and do what they believe to be right. Once a law is broken, the person must be willing to accept the ...
Our struggle is not easy, and we must not think of nonviolence as a safe way to fight oppression, the strength of nonviolence comes from your willingness to take personal risks in Kohlberg’s moral stage 5 moral rights and social contract is explained in this political analysis on governmental power and the antiapartheid and central America work when they led protest on campuses with hundreds being arrested and 130 campus withdrawals.
Peaceful protests were the most prominent form of civil rights activities during the sixties, and often proved successful, given time. “Peaceful but relentless protest was more effective than violent action” (Lindop 30), the legendary civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. argued. One form of this protest manifested itself through James Farmer, who formed the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE for short), conceived the bril...
In his article, published on the tenth of the murder of Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chavez calls for the thinking of King and fighters for peaceful resistance. Putting into use a determined tone, he defends that only nonviolence will be able to the goals of. By using almost-opposite speaking style to violent actions and peaceful actions, he can reason For the advantages of the later; also his strong beliefs and use of plural pronouns and a question that doesn't need an answer help to drive his argument for peaceful resistance.
In his published essay titled, “Civil Disobedience,” nineteenth century American essayist, Henry David Thoreau, shares his concerns towards the obligatory responsibilities of American citizens. Throughout the years, “Civil Disobedience” has become one of the most important essays, due to the fact that it speaks of the need to resist all the injustices and mistreatments in the United States. The central themes of Thoreau’s composition are slavery, inequality and ways to tolerate injustices. His views on the treatment of slavery in the American South, treatment of Native Americans by the United States government, and the war between the United States government and Mexico urges readers to fight discrimination, which creates images of the American
Chavez adopted Gandhi's method to hold non-violent protests, and he strived to improve Mexican Americans working conditions, such as wages. In order to achieve his purpose, Chavez disobeyed; he disobeyed the unjust laws that treated Mexican American workers with inequity. Precisely because of the protests he led, the U.S was able to witness the dignity of a minority group that is essentially being bullied. Because of his will to rebel, people have realized that there was need for change. Because of his disobedience, law makers were prompted to make changes to grant these workers proper civil rights. Disobedience, a rebellious and expressive trait, allowed Cesar Chavez to demonstrate his dignity, and guided him to push for social