Exit Ticket: Appeals, Devices, and Fallacies "I Have a Dream"

"Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood."

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

"When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir."

"And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true."

To provide historical evidence supporting his argument

To emphasize his vision for the future and inspire hope in the audience

To explain the legal background of segregation

To criticize opposing viewpoints directly

It shifts the focus away from civil rights issues

It attacks white people who are against de-segregation

It prevents the audience from assuming that all white people are the enemy

It stops the audience from hating white people