King uses parallelism, loaded language, and rhetorical questions. His use of this loaded language is an effective way to end the speech because this kind of language produces an emotional response in the audience, and that is what Dr. King wanted to provoke in his audience.

King proposed that the United States stop all bombing of North and South Vietnam; declare a unilateral truce in the hope that it would lead to peace talks; set a date for withdrawal of all troops from Vietnam; and give the National Liberation Front a role in negotiations.

I’m using as a subject from which to preach, “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam.” I preach to you today on the war in Vietnam because my conscience leaves me with no other choice. The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war.

If the United States is to get on the ‘right side’ of world events, it must declare ‘eternal hostility’ to poverty, racism and militarism. On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his first major speech on the war in Vietnam.

As Megan McArdle pointed out in the Atlantic, Martin Luther King never said that. Actually, the quote from MLK about enemies is: Advertisement: “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”2011年5月3日

King traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, in support of striking African-American city sanitation workers. The workers had staged a walkout on February 11, 1968, to protest unequal wages and working conditions imposed by mayor Henry Loeb.

At the time of his death, King was trying to organize a protest in Washington against poverty, and he had become outspoken as an opponent of the Vietnam War. A year earlier, King told an audience on April 4, 1967, at a New York City church that he was against the war overseas.

The goal of the march was to draw national attention to the struggle for black voting rights in the state. – he impacted the Civil Rights movement by helping to expose discriminatory practices which ultimately led to significant changes in what the legal system declared unlawful.

The Civil Rights Movement racked up many notable victories, from the dismantling of Jim Crow segregation in the South, to the passage of federal legislation outlawing racial discrimination, to the widespread awareness of the African American cultural heritage and its unique contributions to the history of the United …

On March 17, 1965, even as the Selma-to-Montgomery marchers fought for the right to carry out their protest, President Lyndon Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress, calling for federal voting rights legislation to protect African Americans from barriers that prevented them from voting