Author's Craft Use of Rhetorical Devices & MLK

"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation."

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"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."

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"Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?"

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"Let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi."

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"...and we will not be satisfied, and we cannot be satisfied until justice rolls down LIKE waters, and righteousness LIKE a mighty stream."

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"...when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity..."

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"One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."

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