Each discussed the same issues, but their methods of achievement and ideas about equal opportunity differed as much as night and day. Although both greatly influential civil rights activists, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. had some very significant differences in their backgrounds and methods of delivery in their messages of equality. Both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. spread their views through assertive, hard-hitting, powerful speeches. Nevertheless, their intentions were delivered in different styles and purposes. As an inspirational speaker, Martin Luther King Jr. traveled the country, giving speeches that motivated both blacks and whites to live in racial harmony.
Dr. King not only did he make this better but he also influenced people to speak up for themselves no matter what sex, race, or religion there is no wrong in saying what you think is wright. Hatred amongst other people just because they look different or they act different is not morally correct people should live with accept and maybe even embrace the different cultures. Even though Dr. King is dead his words and characters live on into the modern world. Today Dr. King’s decisions and speeches have affected the world of today in many ways. One of the greatest achievements was our new president Barak Obama, but his smaller achievements count too, such as the diversities in school, neighborhoods, and public areas.
Henry and Bush’s Persuasive Speeches Although Henry Patrick and George Bush Sr. lived in different time periods, they both knew how to give convincing speeches for the issues that they were arguing about. George Bush Sr. was convincing the nation to support his decision to invade Iraq, while Patrick Henry was trying to rally the patriots to revolt against the British and their unfair taxes, and policies. However they both used ethos and pathos in their speeches. When Patrick Henry says, “It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country”, he is showing that he is a Christian and that what the patriots are fighting for is not only for the country, but also for god, which is making him relatable because he is a man of religion, but also evoking emotion by saying that the people will be fighting for god. George did the same thing when he said, “This conflict started August 2nd when the dictator of Iraq invaded a small and helpless neighbor.” By referring to Kuwait as “small” and “helpless” he is using pathos and evoking the emotions of both feeling bad for Kuwait and hating the big bully in Iraq.
Martin Luther King’s philosophy was perfect at the time because it was pushing America forward more into desegregation. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X had opposite views when it came down to how they wanted to fight the Civil Rights Movement. King took the nonviolent path while Malcolm X led his way down the violent path. King believed that Blacks shouldn’t cooperate with evil and marching and boycotting was their nonviolent arsenal (Document F). He believed that violence increased hate and that it was a spiral that leads to nowhere, it solves no problems (Document J).
Just those two allusions are enough to convince a right-minded human, but Banneker goes on in his rhetorical use. Before Benjamin talks about Job, he uses a slew of hortative sentences. He is calling Thomas Jefferson to action, urging him to stand up and do something about the inhumanity that was slavery, just as he did before with Britain and the Revolution. "Wean yourselves from those narrow prejudices which
He carefully balanced liberalism and conservatism, by being pro-gay rights, but against gay marriage, pro affirmative action but against racial quotas. He appealed to the middle-class more than the poor. Clinton’s superiority over Bush in economics showed in a presidential debate in October 1992, when they were asked how to find a cure for the economic problems of ordinary people. Bush could not answer the question, but Clinton on the other hand shined, and told her stories that he had heard during his time as governor of Arkansas. By doing so, people believed that he truly felt their pain during the recession.
As the letter progresses, king becomes very clear of his mission of liberation. In the fifth paragraph and thereafter, he sets the scene of Birmingham and how unjust the authority has been to the black race. Finally, king delivers his concrete point and probably his main intention in the closing stages of his letter by calling for unity against human injustices. King understands that this can only be done through unity and thus he asks for forgiveness from his accusers once again. In this letter, king really wanted to convince his accusers of his justification in staging anti racism demonstration.
Long, long ago throughout Europe and parts of Asia, Communism was thought to be an excellent way of life. Maybe it was too much of a Utopian thought to actually follow through with. In Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” he says, “If I lived in a *Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are *suppressed, I believe I would openly *advocate *disobeying these anti-religious laws.” I strongly believe that Doctor King not only brought up Communism because of Hitler’s Germany in the nineteen forties, but also because Communism was thought up to be as every single person were to be equal. There would be no such thing as social classes, or rich and poor, or black or white; everyone would be equal.
In speeches, he borrowed the language of Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, as well as that of the New Testament of the Bible. He talked about freedom in the conventional American sense of the word. Whenever he could, he violated racist local laws by referring to the federal laws with which they were at odds; he had far more qualms about disobeying a federal injunction than a state injunction. In his "I Have A Dream" speech, he presented America as a wasted opportunity, but not as an evil thing itself. After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had passed, however, his view of the situation changed.
Jem, without knowing that Tom Robinson will lose the trial even if he is innocent, told Reverend Skyes how Tom Robinson might win this case. In reply, Reverend Skyes said,” I ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a (black) man over a white man” (Lee 279). Reverend Skyes wants to tell Jem that there is no such thing as justice and fairness for a black father, black son, black mother and black daughter. Another kind of discrimination is social favoritism. Social discrimination also played an important role throughout the American history, especially in Southern part of the United States.