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The Power of Metaphors Two scores ago, in the heart of the United State’s capital, a gathering formed near the feet of the author of the Emancipation Proclamation. Just as Lincoln did in his time, another man was raised during the time of the early sixties to lead the civil rights movement. The speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was less than seventeen hundred words, however, the truths that were said, the feelings that were provoked and the power of Dr. King’s voice will forever resonate through out all generations of time to come. In his powerful speech, Dr. King used descriptive metaphors to help convey the needed changes and goals for America in those early stages of the equal rights movement. The crowd that gathered that humid august day all became a part of history.
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