On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 civil-rights groups attended the March on Washington. Lecturing the marchers from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Profoundly, he declared for a free nation of equivalence where all race would join together in the exertion to achieve common ground. King specified his desire for all colors to unite and be judged by character, not by race. African Americans would not be content until their desire for freedom from persecution, bitterness, and hatred prevailed. Not only were the opinions in his speech powerful, but also the delivery he gave was so persuading and real that it altered the hearts of many people across America. By using three artificial proofs, logos, ethos, and pathos, Martin Luther King was able to open the eyes of people who were blinded by the color of skin. Another style King presented quite well was ethos, which is his credibility on his speech. Of course he depicted this effectively because he himself is an African American, and he knows exactly what kind of segregation and discrimination his black brothers are experiencing. King gives an example by saying, “We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.” He goes on to say, “Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.” Not a day would go by that somewhere a black person was treated unequally because of the color of his skin. Martin Luther King addressed to the people such real and visual examples of occurrences happening, that many people finally began to look at the situation in another point of view. Many people started think