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The Gettysburg Address Rhetorical Analysis

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“ I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal.” Dr. King also states that one day he would like his children to be free as whites were. “ I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but the content of their character.” Dr. King uses his own words to describe what he wants the nation to look like in the future. “ I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.” In the Gettysburg Address Lincoln talks about how people fought the war and how people should honor their soldiers. Lincoln states, “We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.” What he says means that the soldiers lost their lives to give us freedom. Lincoln says, “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” He didn 't know if people would remember what Lincoln said on November 19, 1863 but he said don 't forget that the soldiers lost their lives. “It is rather for us to be here
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