One function of these addresses is to bring the country together. As one political scientist put it, they brim with 'verbal ...

I am a civil rights baby, born into agitating when my mother sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Huntsville, Alabama, ...

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive ...

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.” — Abraham ...

In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleared Congress, and President Ronald Reagan signed it.

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive ...

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive ...

Given its enormous place in American and world history, it is an oratorical masterpiece, and aside from its social impact and ...