Dr. Martin Luther King's I Ve Been To The Mountaintop

In memphis in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King gave his last speech. “I’ve Been To the Mountaintop” was a speech that spoke of unity, nonviolent protest, injustice, and the possibility of America’s future. Dr. King uses rhetoric and biblical language to sway his audience to view and rally the way that King wants people to protest. Something that was prodigious occurred during the event of this speech. Dr. King foreshadowed the world if he were to perish for some unknown reason.
“We want to be free” (King, 1968). King uses this as the phrase that all colored people in the south, should be shouting. The injustice of treatment of the sanitation workers in Memphis. To acknowledge that they do not have the rights that were promised in the first amendment (King, 1968). This is what brought King to Memphis. He wanted to bring the nonviolence protest to Memphis. He wanted to share that if you start a fire with violence and hatred, sometimes the fire will not be able to be put out with water (King, 1968). King

That the future can be so bright, not only bright but filled with equal opportunities. He speaks of the hope he has for the country and his own family (King, 1963). In King’s I’ve Been To the Mountaintop speech, he talks about what needs to be done now, with the problems at hand. Those problems involve the struggles with sanitation workers and unjust hiring methods (King, 1968). The two speeches have one similar thing in common. King’s idea of the fact that it needs to be done now or it will never happen. In I Have A Dream, King uses the phrase, “Now is the time..”(King, 1963). This phrase shows the urgency of the call to action that the people needed. They needed to be aware that it was now or never. In I’ve Been To the Mountaintop, King uses the phrase, “..if something isn’t done, and done in a hurry…” (King,1968). Once again, King puts emphasis on the need to do things