Compare And Contrast Martin Luther King And Bill Clinton's Speech

The two speeches I decided to compare and contrast are, Republican President, Ronald Reagan’s 1983 speech on the Creation of the Martin Luther King Jr., National Holiday and Democratic President Bill Clinton’s 1995 address on Race Relations. In Reagan’s speech he addressed the King family, the members of Congress and honored guests, about Martin Luther King Jr. Day becoming a national holiday and how racism still remains in the United States, however every Martin Luther King Day we as Americans should reflect on Dr. King and the commandments he believed in and lived by every day. In Clinton’s speech he talked about the issue of ending racial discrimination and the problem won’t be solved through the work of leaders alone, but with the American people as a whole. I choose these two because they both parallel on the topic of race relation in the United States, how Martin Luther King Jr spent his life combating racism and trying to create equality for all, and that even as the times change there is still traces of bigotry left. …show more content…
Lastly both speeches ended with “Thank you, God bless you” really stood out, because it represents the American back bone of the statement “in God we trust”, along with the fact that both speeches did a good job in stressing the point that the American society can go one of two ways, Clinton’s words phrases it the best when he says, “… we face a choice….further separation and bitterness and more lost futures… or the path of courage and wisdom, leads to unity, to reconciliation, to a rich opportunity for all Americans to make the most of the lives God gave