Introduction
Martin Luther King gave his famous 1963 “I Have a Dream” at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, before a crowd of 250,000 supporters and a television radio audience of hundreds of millions worldwide. It is widely considered one of his greatest speeches and indeed one of the greatest of any American in the 20th Century, with a brilliant use of Ethos, Logos and Pathos to support the Civil Rights bill being debated in Congress and to call for full and equal citizenship for all people in the United States. Today the speech is best remembered for the pathos of ...