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I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Dr. Martin Luther King, a prominent African American leader in the equal rights movement, delivered his most famous speech on the steps of the Lincoln memorial to an audience of hundreds of thousands of citizens white and black. His inspiring speech pleaded for African American rights to be fully and undeniably recognized by all. In his demanding “I Have a Dream” speech, wins over his crowd by …

…successfully calls up all real Americans to fight for equal rights. To make his speech better he could have used a short anecdote of the worst time he had ever been abused. This would have reinforced his appeal to pathos. He could have employed more factual evidence with statistics that would have strengthened his logos appeal. Ethos could have been fortified by a complaint to the government or the president for not enforcing the constitution.