Emotional+Appeal

= Throughout Martin Luther King’s Speech he uses emotional appeal to relate to the audience, draw the audience in, and bring forth an understanding of segregation and discrimination. = =  = =  “I am not mindful that some of you have come here out of much trials and tribulations. Some of you have come from fresh narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest—quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.” = =  = = This quote shows the reader that he knows the people and the much trouble he has gone through, because he also might have gone through it himself. = =  = =  “One day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”  = =  = = King knew that in his heart there will be a time that we will all be joined together. As he was growing up he saw the segregation and discrimination from other whites and it had affected him deeply. = =  = =   = =  Would you relate more to King emotionally if you had young children that were kept from hanging out with white children because of the color of their skin? = =  = =  “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 content of their character.”  = =  = = By relating to the audience with his children it shows that he truly cares about the nation and the future generations that will rise up in this country. = =  = =  How do you think our country would be like today if Martin Luther King Jr. hadn’t questioned authority and fought against segregation and discrimination? =