Martin Luther King an example for our society

"I have a dream", is a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. It was delivered on August 28 in 1963 at the Lincoln memorial.

This speech is considered one of the best speeches from the 20th century, it demands racial justice and it gives different images of a "perfect world" where everyone can live together in peace. It also helps us to understand how their society feels, and their resentment after hundreds of years being discriminated.

This speech is effective because he believes in equality, one of the main topics in the speech, and he sounds confident of the values he talks about in his speech.

In the speech he also uses different rhetorical devices and persuasive techniques that help to construct a credible speech, for example "But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity." In this quote he uses repetition, he repeats "One hundred years" twice in the same paragraph, the effect this causes is to emphasize that it has been a long time, and the negro is still discriminated. He also uses a metaphor, "the life of the negro is still crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination." to compare their lives to a horrible condemn, where they are constantly discriminated and segregated from the society.

Things like this examples can be seen through all the speech, and they have a powerful effect on the people that hear them.

It is a shame that things like discriminating people for their skin color has happened and it is even worse that it still happens, when humans are supposed to "evolve" and make progress as a society. But it is better that there are humans like Martin Luther King that are trying to do something about this things, I think people with his point of view are necessary for our society. That is why I also think this is one of the best speeches of the 20th century, besides, it is also well structured and achieves its goal.