Rhetorical Appeals in Speeches

"I have a dream that 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, Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Ethos

• Pathos

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"But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.“

- I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Ethos

• Pathos

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"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

- I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Pathos

• Logos

• Ethos

“One day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and girls as sisters and brothers.“

- I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr.

• EThos

• Pathos

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 ”I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.”

- Standford Commencement Speech, Steve Jobs

• Ethos

• Pathos

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“The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.”

- Standford Commencement Speech, Steve Jobs

• Ethos

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“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

- Standford Commencement Speech, Steve Jobs

• Ethos

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“I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”

- Standford Commencement Speech, Steve Jobs

• Ethos

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“No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism…[those men ]who just addressed the house. But different men often see the same subject in different lights.”

- Speech in the Virginia Convention, Patrick Henry

• Ethos

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“It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes from the painful truth.”

- Speech in the Virginia Convention, Patrick Henry

• Ethos

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• Logos