Mahatma Gandhi “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Martin Luther King Jr. was one of those people you look up to and are inspired by, he was one of those people who changed the world. Martin Luther King Jr.'s writings, though often delivered orally, moved nations and helped end the scourge of racial injustice in the 1960s. His hard work and true determination helped improve American life today. He was the reason we now have an African American president and integrated schools. King's writing influenced people and led to social change. Martin Luther King, Jr. was an extraordinary man and his life helped change the opinions of others. He was best known for his heroic action in the 1960s against the civil rights movement. The literary content of each of his speeches is breathtaking. King worked hard on his speeches; from the year 1957 to 1958 he wrote 208 speeches. King uses the literary element pathos in many of his speeches. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines pathos as “an element in artistic experience or representation...