Comparing Rhetorical Strategies Of Abraham Lincoln And Martin Luther King

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Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King were two very similar rhetoricians who wanted to achieve almost identical aspirations. Abraham Lincoln was the leader of the Anti-Slavery Republican Party and the president of the United States. Martin Luther King was a Baptist Minister and the leader of the Civil Rights Movement. When Abraham Lincoln delivered his speech during the American Civil War on November nineteenth, 1863 at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In his speech, he made it clear that his main objective was to abolish slavery. When he was saying speech it seems like he forgot that he was the President of the United States he referred himself as a regular man and that show to the people that he has a great belief in equality and wanted everyone
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