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Repetition:
Geography had instructed me in differences of terrain, resources, and productivity. Comparative culture had instructed me in the differences of background and group interests. Anthropology had instructed me in the differences of facial bone structure, skin color and general physical aspect. (3)
Repetition: a major rhetorical strategy for producing emphasis, clarity, amplification, or emotional effect.
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With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
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And the simplest reality of all was that the human community was one—greater than any of its parts, greater than the separateness imposed by the nations, grater than the different faiths and loyalties or the depth and color of varying cultures. (Para. 4)