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Interpreting Mlk's Speech

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If I were at the Walk on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, MLK’s speech would have had a greater impact on me. In the MLK speech his tone brought in the audience and got them into the speech while in John Lewis’s speech he had the same tone and energy all the way through, so as a demonstrator I would have easily got bored. According to John Lewis’s Speech he states, “While we stand here, there are sharecroppers in the Delta of Mississippi who are out in the fields working for less than three dollars a day, twelve hours a day. While we stand here there are students in jail on trumped-up charges.” This is in the introduction to his speech with in the first 5 lines. Therefore he is starting with very high energy and powerful tone. So this wakes up the demonstrators at the walk. Also in John Lewis’s speech he states, “They’re talking about slow down and stop. We will not stop. All of the forces of Eastland, Barnett, Wallace, and Thurmond will not stop this …show more content…

This calmes the audience and pulls them in to listen. In MLK’s speech he also states, “ When we allow freedom to ring-when we let it ring from every city and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last, Free at last, Great God a-mighty, "We are free at last."” This was the very last line of words spoken in MLK’s speech with much higher energy and a more powerful, determined tone. Hearing this speech go from slow to faster would leave a bigger impact on me because I would not be bored and lose interest fast like in John Lewis's

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