Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela were prominent men in the fight for civil rights and made speeches that were, and still are, influential and monumental. King was a Baptist minister who pushed for racial equality and organized many non-violent protests. On a march in Washington, D.C., he delivered a speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to the many protesters of the segregation and unjust treatment of African Americans. Nelson Mandela also worked for equal rights, even having been imprisoned for a number of years, but mainly fought to end aparteid in Africa. He addressed both the people of Africa and the world when he delivered a speech at his African presidential inauguration. King's and Mandela's oratories were extraordinary literary creations.

Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech was a masterpiece not only in the Civil Rights Movement, but with respect to all...