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Analysis of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Rhetoric

that he is speaking directly to them and to their concerns. Similarly, he refers again and again to himself and links himself with these other leaders because all are religious men and all are presumed concerned about the plight of their people.

The "I Have a Dream" speech was delivered in Washington, D.C. before a crowd of more than 200,000 black and white civil rights marchers near the Lincoln Memorial. In this case, there is no doubt that the immediate audience is in support of the ideas expressed by King, though the wider audience that will see or hear this speech later is at best to be persuaded and at least not to be alienated by what is said. In the opening of this speech, King deliberately evokes memories of an earlier speech delivered a century before by Abraham Lincoln and makes reference to the Emancipation Proclamation written by Lincoln: "Five score years ago, a great American, i

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