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Winston Churchill defeats Martin Luther King in battle of the orators poll
Only Winston Churchill was a more inspiring orator than Martin Luther King, the British public says in a ComRes survey for The Independent on Sunday. To mark the 50th anniversary of King's "I have a dream" speech on 28 August, we asked people to compare King with eight other speakers.
The resulting league table shows being dead is the most important qualification for a high ranking, and that current or recent UK politicians are the worst rated. David Cameron is saved from last place only by his immediate predecessor at No 10.
Of our sample, 39 per cent said Churchill was a "more inspiring" speaker than King, and a further 36 per cent that he was "about the same" – presumably thinking of his wartime radio addresses rather than his postwar claim that a Labour government "would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo". Only 11 per cent said Churchill was "less inspiring" than King.
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Famous Speech Almost Didn’t Have the Phrase “I Have a Dream”
The best-laid plans are often better off ignored—at least that was the case with Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.
Widely regarded as one of the world’s most “transformative and influential” speeches alongside Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Gettysburg Address and Winston Churchill’s 1940 “Blood, toil, tears and sweat” speech, the impact of King’s words that hot summer afternoon in Washington D.C. struck a chord with civil rights advocates near and far and became a powerful rallying cry.
King’s speech added bränsle to the ongoing movement for racial equality. Its impact helped pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, outlawing racial segregation in the United States.
But those four famous words almost didn’t make it into the speech.
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Winston Churchill
British statesman and author (1874–1965)
"Churchill" redirects here. For other uses, see Churchill (disambiguation) and Winston Churchill (disambiguation).
The Right Honourable Sir Winston Churchill KG OM CH TD DL FRS RA | |||||||||||||||||||
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The Roaring Lion, 1941 | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 26 October 1951 – 5 April 1955 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Deputy | Anthony Eden | ||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Clement Attlee | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Anthony Eden | ||||||||||||||||||
| In office 10 May 1940 – 26 July 1945 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Monarch | George VI | ||||||||||||||||||
| Deputy | Clement Attlee (de facto; 1942–1945) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Neville Chamberlain | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Clement Attlee | ||||||||||||||||||
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