Martin Luther King Jr.'s Speech 'I' Ve Been To The Mountaintop

The United States has a Constitution that allows and even encourages free speech, a free press, and through the years those freedoms have been exercises by individuals with radically different political and philosophical viewpoints. Jeffrey T. Kuhner of The Washington Times used that freedom to express his rebuttal to President Barack Obama in the Times' publication on Friday, February 10.

King then sums up this passage by turning his voice back to the clergymen he's addressing and says, "Then you will understand why we find it difficult to

Towards the end of his speech he goes to say “ we few, we happy few, we band of brothers” meaning what we have is really what we got. Together as a team as brothers, we will be united to fight this battle out as one. Us together as one can make this fight better than us as individuals. We fight as brothers, as one, the few that we have we will fight as one. He makes it known that we are one if I fight it is as a united family and we will fight with honor due to the fact we’re really all we have right now.

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On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. the great Civil Rights activist, delivered one of the most powerful, influential, and famous speeches, I Have a Dream, to thousands of citizens at the Washington D.C. Lincoln Memorial. Dr. King 's memorable speech occurred in a dire moment of the Civil Rights movement. His argumentative speech persuaded people in opposition to civil rights by using different methods of rhetorical appeal. Dr. King 's speech was so interesting, because of the combination of rhetorical appeal styles he uses, such as ethos, logos, and pathos.

In the book Freedom for the Thought that we Hate, author Anthony Lewis takes a simply phrased law, the First Amendment and shows how complex freedom of speech really is once put into the real world of freedom, as we know it. He shows through his rejections of absolutism, strong support towards freedom restriction, and objective analysis of Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, that the United States press is unlike any other in the world.

The American Civil Rights movement holds a reputation for being a peaceful revolution, based on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s doctrines of nonviolent civil disobedience. Unfortunately, the general public has an

Thirteen-year old Jesse Murphy had just sat down to his much loved supper of barbecued ribs with red beans and coleslaw when the phone rang. The yellow phone hung on the kitchen partition and was just steps away from the dining room table.

In the United States, freedom of the press and the broader freedom of speech are protected by the First

beliefs. He began to listen to what the other side had to say. To speak up

The technique of Anaphora is commonly used to punctuate a certain point and set a pattern to increase its dramatic effect during a speech. In this announcement, King uses anaphora on 8 different occasions to stress his opinions. An example of this would be “Now is the time…” (27-30) when King directly addresses the audience to encourage them to stand up for their rights and “rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation…” (28). “I have a dream…” (72), repeated the most throughout the speech, also created emphasis through repetition of a phrase, leaving a stronger impression in the audiences mind and hence a heavier emotional attachment from the audience would lead to easier persuasion through speech.

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Shortly before Martin Luther King was shot, he gave a powerful speech on civil rights. Martin Luther King’s last speech, ‘I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”, was given during the Memphis sanitation strike in which almost 1000 black workers were on strike for not being treated fairly. On April 3rd, 1968, MLK gave his final speech during the times of nonviolent civil rights protest, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” is remembered by people as MLK asking the black population to go out in the streets with him and non violently protest for what they deserve. In his speech, Martin Luther King effectively uses many allusions, repetition, and metaphors to indicate his key point of calling the African American community to action; as he told them

He underlined his intentions as follows: “I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done.”

The world of the Mountaintop is very confined and does not change at all throughout the play. The Mountaintop is based inside room 306 of the Lorraine Motel. Time during the play is downtempo and at the end the play begins to move at a more realistic time frame. The mood of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is very serious, but he loosens up when Camae enter the room. He then becomes very relaxed and even smokes cigarettes with Camae. He makes small talk with her, and even seductively compliments her with his eyes and words. After Camae tells King that she is an angel, King begins to panic and become frantic while feeling overwhelmed with anger. By the time King is begging God to let him finish his work on Earth, the time has transitioned from leisurely to a combination of urgency and somber. The storm in the play helps set the sorrow mood toward the end of the play when Dr. King is told that he woul dbetraveling to heaven in the near future.