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 the compelling event that Lincoln endured with the Emancipation Proclamation. MLK proved t