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coffeesp00ns  ·  3866 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: MLK's I Have a Dream speech

The things I find interesting about this speech, and MLK as an orator in general, is the amount of not just allusion, but outright borrowing from his own speeches and the speeches of others. Some people use this to discredit King as an orator, but I think it is not just smart, but also good oratorship and a good way to stay "on-message", ringing home the same points in new ways.

Wikipedia actually has some really cool breakdown on this speech: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream#The_speech





xenophon  ·  3865 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks for that link. Super interesting to see a rhetorical breakdown.