What are both Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and King's Nobel Prize acceptance speech asking of their audiences?A.To pressure the South to abolish slaveryB.To give the speaker the power to end a warC.To practice only nonviolent methodsD.To keep fighting for what they believe in
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What are both Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and King's Nobel Prize acceptance speech asking of their audiences?A.To pressure the South to abolish slaveryB.To give the speaker the power to end a warC.To practice only nonviolent methodsD.To keep fighting for what they believe in
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Both Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and King's Nobel Prize acceptance speech are asking their audiences to keep fighting for what they believe in.
Here's why:
A. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was not about pressuring the South to abolish slavery. It was a speech to honor those who had died at the Battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War, and to remind the living of the principles for which these soldiers had fought.
B. Neither speech was about giving the speaker the power to end a war. Lincoln was already the President during the Civil War, and King was a civil rights leader, not a political leader with the power to declare or end wars.
C. While King was a proponent of nonviolent methods, this was not the primary focus of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. His speech was more about the struggle for civil rights and the need to continue this struggle.
D. Both speeches, however, do ask their audiences to keep fighting for what they believe in. Lincoln's speech asks the audience to ensure that the soldiers did not die in vain, but that the nation would have a new birth of freedom. King's speech talks about the ongoing struggle for civil rights and the need to continue this struggle until all people are treated equally. So, the answer is D.
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