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The Rhetoric of the I Have a Dream Speech
The I have a dream speech is an expression of the civil rights movement that is most congenial to conservatives. The emphasis on this particular speech, it's a kind of way of sanitizing him and making him less nuanced, more moderate, less unsettling, less confrontational figure. If you were being really harsh, now we've talked about how moving the speech is,. You would say this is the rhetorical equivalent to John Lennon's imagine.