The Power of Speech & the Persuasion of Writing "So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition"(King). This statement used by King is a perfect example of a powerful speaker. King's opening statement in I Have A Dream is meant to open the eyes of injustice through out America at that time. To do so in a powerful way King must use compelling events. King says in his speech, I Have A Dream, "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation"(King). MLK is comparing the movement at hand, with t....

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