George Wallace Inaugural Speech as Governor of Alabama, January 14, 1963
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In George Wallace’s Inaugural Speech as
Governor of Alabama, January 14, 1963, his goal was to persuade to the people
of Alabama to choose him as Governor. First, he talks about how the state of
Alabama has been blessed by God. He goes into detail about how they have
natural resources and tremendous amount of industries. By him complimenting
Alabama, saying it is one of they best states, those southerners start to
believe that they truly live in a safe environment that he will keep growing
and improving. In his speech I noticed that he bring up religion and how God should
be in control. He talks about how the government is taking over the people and
has become their God. He is trying to persuade the people of Alabama that if he
is Governor, he will bring back God giving them freedom so that the government
will stop being the master of the people and go back to being the servant of
the people. Wallace wants dictatorship and communism gone so that everyone can
get their freedom back, even the Negros. He represents himself as an equal
giving man whose cause is to give society the freedom of integration. To his
opponents, he bashes on communism and states that the government does nothing
but fear the people. He brings up Hitler and talks about the control and fear
of dictatorship. Wallace wants the people of Alabama to see that he wants to
everyone to have the freedom to teach, develop, and live equally with no
segregation. Wallace is Scapegoating when he says, “It is a government that claims to us that it is bountiful as it
buys its power from us with the fruits of its rapaciousness of the wealth that
free men before it have produced and builds on crumbling credit without
responsibilities to the debtors, our children”. He also uses Polarization when he divides
segregation and the overpowering government with integrations and himself, who
supports freedom of the people.
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