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Memorial Dedication Speech Analysis

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Progression Assures Freedom It can be said that throughout the course of the years, the nation, established by the principles of freedom, has generated a progression by the contributions of the people in a general attempt to acquire freedom and racial equality. In the speech, delivered by President Barack Obama at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Dedication, Obama outlines how the nation has contrived progression towards acquiring freedom and racial equality, generated by the perseverance of individual advocates so the nation is able to benefit from their advancements, and appraise the nation's progress. In my perspective, I agree with Obama’s position, emphasized throughout his speech, since I believe that the nation has demonstrated relevant progression towards freedom and …show more content…

It can be said that the nation has progressed towards freedom and racial equality because essential liberty and individual rights were acquired when the people of the nation, including the soldiers, contributed to the advancement by devoting their lives in the Battle of Gettysburg, in order to preserve the freedom and equality, initially established by the founding fathers of the nation. According to Lincoln, Lincoln claims,” It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth,”(Lincoln 3). Lincoln is explaining how the citizens of the nation that continue to live are united with the occupation and commission of completing the obligation that the soldiers have advanced, in order to preserve liberty and equality, so that the nation will not terminate, but remain in existence among

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