Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil right activist and preacher during the late 1900s. In his speech “Beyond Vietnam” Martin uses multiple rhetorical strategies including ethos, logos, and imagery to enforce his beliefs on how America should stay out the Vietnam War and focus on improving America. One of Martins many topics in his speech was segregation in America. Martin states” faced with cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools.” (paragraph 8) Which uses logos as a rhetorical technique. This statement portrays how America is willing to commit to violence disregarding laws at home rather than create solutions where its most
