Rhetorical Analysis Of Cesar Chavez's Speech

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Around the Civil Rights Movement, particularly the 1960s, Dr. King was well known for his speeches and marches. When he was assassinated, there were many violent and distraught reactions because of his death. During the tenth anniversary of his assassination, Cesar Chavez published an article explaining his reasoning and knowledge as to why nonviolent ways are best to see implicate changes. Chavez uses prominent, powerful diction, appeals, and apposability to argue his point about nonviolence resistance towards the audience.
In the beginning of his plea, he states, "Dr. King’s entire life was an example of power that nonviolence brings to bear in the real world." Chavez tries to inform his audience that you must be nonviolent and peaceful …show more content…

"Nonviolence supports you if you have a just and moral cause," he says. He intrigues the audiences’ feelings of good morals and that human nature is more drawn into nonviolence than the violent, corrupt nature. Nonviolence should not exploit the poor people and the ones that are already oppressed. He doesn’t want his audience to be influenced by the violence and having their morals go to waste, it should only go to helping the others that are caught in the violence and the ones who are poor and weak. Also he says, "Who gets killed in the case of violent revolution? The poor, the workers." He answers the obvious who's more prone to be hurt and killed in violence— the poor and the workers. Furthermore, Chavez also says, "Nonviolence has exactly the opposite effect. If, for every violent act committed against us, we respond with nonviolence, we attract people’s support." He makes it seems that nonviolence is attractive in a way that will entices his audience to realize that nonviolence will gather a lot of supporters that will make a positive and healthy way to make change have a greater chance to happen against the

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