Martin Luther King Judgement Day Analysis

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Kelly Mammen English 101 September 16, 2009 Professor Jay Judgment Day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. uses logos to show his readers how their judgments and actions are wrong. He states “In your statement you assert that our actions even though peaceful, must be condemned because they precipitate violence” (60). He goes on to give examples on situations where innocent people’s actions precipitate violence and how they should be protected and not condemned. One of his examples was someone who has money that is robbed, they would never be condemned because they had the money, and the same consideration should be given to Negroes because they were just exercising their rights to peaceful assembly and protest. King…show more content…
King describes how he has to tell his little girl that “she can’t go to the amusement park advertised on TV, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told it is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky” (57). Most people have a sort of soft spot in their hearts for children. Children are viewed as innocent little people that are almost sacred and are thought to never be harmed. Whether they had a black child or white child they know that they would never want to have to explain they couldn’t go somewhere just because of the color of their skin. He also talks about how some white brothers have joined them in their revolution and the punishments they are receiving because they care. “They have languished in filthy, roach-infested jails, suffering the abuse and brutality of policemen who view them as ‘dirty nigger-lovers’” (63). Compassion is a virtue that everyone shares, and having white people being punished for helping Negroes shows that these injustices aren’t just toward Negroes; by saying this King can appeal to his readers more to him by telling them that this is happening to people just like

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