2.+Freedom

 Freedom

  Freedom plays a major part in Kings Speech, for obvious reasons. He wants his people to be truly free from all oppression and racism. But It’s not only African Americans he desires freedom for. His speech reveals his ultimate desire for freedom for everybody. Freedom from racism as well as freedom from oppression.

"From every mountainside, let freedom ring

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring up from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all God's children black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

// Free at last! Free at last! // " King's speech includes several lines from //My country tis of thee//, some of which he alters to be more fitting for the black's current circumstances. King uses the literary device anaphora, which is when you repeat a phrase at the beginning of sentences. The phrase he repeats is "Let freedom ring" as he continues to talk about an area that was filled with racism where he wants freedom to abound for all colors. This is one of the most amazing aspects of his speech. While he focuses on black liberty and equality because that was the mina nad most important issue at the time, in reality he really wanted all colors to be equal and all races to live in harmony together, without anger or vengance.