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A Rhetorical Analysis of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech – Dr. Kirstin Kiledal, 1/17/25 (0171)

Issues, Etc.

Lutheran Public Radio

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Dr. Kirstin Kiledal of Hillsdale College

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This is Molly Hemingway, encouraging you to listen to my favorite podcast, issues, etc.

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Every day you get in-depth interviews with host Todd Wilkin asking expert guests, substantive, thought-provoking questions on all of the important news and issues of our day.

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and apologetics. Expert guests, expansive topics, always extolling Christ, issues, etc.

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So even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

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It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equally.

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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able

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to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the

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state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice,

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sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

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I have a dream.

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My four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.

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That's an excerpt from the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'s, I have a dream speech,

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delivered on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial of Washington, D.C.

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In terms of rhetoric, in terms of rhetoric, it certainly has stood the test of time, and it is

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often quoted, often remembered.

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And at the time, it was a particular political

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and one might even say moral moment for the nation. How does it age and how does it display

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Martin Luther King Jr.'s rhetorical skills? Greetings and welcome to issues etc. coming to you live from the

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studios of Lutheran Public Radio in Collinsville, Illinois. I'm Todd Wilkin. Thanks for

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