Which element of the rhetorical triangle is most prevalent?

1. Which element of the rhetorical triangle is most prevalent? That couldn’t stop us. And we just went on before the dogs and we would look at them; and we’d go on before the water hoses and we would look at it, and we’d just go on singing “Over my head I see freedom in the air.” And then we would be thrown in the paddy wagons, and sometimes we were stacked in there like sardines in a can. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

2. Which element of the rhetorical triangle is most prevalent? Now about injunctions: We have an injunction and we’re going into court tomorrow morning to fight this illegal, unconstitutional injunction. All we say to America is, “Be true to what you said on paper.” If I Lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn’t committed themselves to that over there. But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly [. . . ] Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

3. Which element of the rhetorical triangle is most prevalent? The Asian culture, as it happens, is something I know a bit about, having spent five years at Harvard striving for a Ph.D. in a joint program called History and East Asian Languages and, after that, living either as a student (for one year) or a journalist (six years) in China and Southeast Asia. At least I know enough to know there is no such thing as the “Asian culture.” -- Richard Bernstein

4. Which element of the rhetorical triangle is most prevalent? It does well for us to remember that, in an age of increasing illiteracy, 60 percent of the world’s illiterates are women. Between 1960 and 1970, the number of illiterate men in the world rose by 8 million, while the number of illiterate women rose by 40 million. And the number of illiterate women is increasing. --Adrienne Rich

5. Which element of the rhetorical triangle is most prevalent? I think that’s what we need: more people carrying weapons. I support the legislation but I’d like to propose one small amendment. Everyone should be able to carry a concealed weapon. But everyone who carries a weapon should be required to wear one of those little beanies on their heads with a little propeller on it so the rest of us can see them coming. --Molly Ivins