In his article "Do You Speak Presidential?" Trester explains how language is a powerful political tool that presidents use to project a sense of pity and it is not always what you say but the way you say it (399). This highlights Mandela's speech with his use of pathos to target audience emotion and pity. “This spiritual and physical unity that we all share with this common homeland explains the depth of the pain that we all carried in our hearts when we saw our country being torn apart in a terrible conflict” (419). “Every time one of us touches the soil of this earth, we feel a sense of personal renewal” (419). Mandela's language and tone express a sense of pity in his projects, as Trester says. Trester also explains how language creates identity. “Language is and will continue to be an important tool for creating identity” (403). This illuminates Mandela's rhetorical use of ethos. Mandela's image and credibility are well known in South Africa, his background has made this a little easier and his connections with African citizens allow him to be more than just a president but someone they work with. can identify themselves. Mandela assures the population that he has gone through the same suffering and the same long discrimination and that he uses the "we" several times in his speech. “We still understand that there is no easy path to freedom” (420). “We know well that none of us, acting alone, can succeed. We must therefore act together as a united people, for national reconciliation, for the building of the nation, for the birth of a new world” (420). William Lutz, professor of English at Rutgers University, talks about "Doubts About Doublespeak" which I believe is also inspired by Mandela's speech. Lutz's articles refer to the fact that doublespeak is a language that claims to communicate but does not (380). The fourth type of doublespeak is inflated language, which makes the ordinary seem