Throughout American history, there were numerous influential speeches made by countless important activists, but there were only a few that stood out amongst the crowd. Martin Luther King and Malala Yousafzai were some of these few people, their impassioned speeches, “ I Have a Dream” and Malala UN speech, motivated and inspired various of people across the world and created a huge impact on American society. Although they targeted their speeches towards different topics, focused on different types of people, and had sent out different messages, there are quite some similarities amongst the two from coming from unfortunate backgrounds, standing up against injustice, and opposing the use of any physical action. To begin with, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malala Yousafzai came from a society where they were constantly being threatened, but they never let their hopes down in pursuing what they believe in. During Malala speech at the United Nation building she describes to the audience her graphic experience she had faced against the Taliban, “ The Taliban shot me on the left side of my forehead. They shot my friends too. They thought that the bullets would silence us. But they failed. And then, out of that silence came, thousands of voices.” Malala gained nothing but empowerment and strength after the attempt on her life. The fear she had once felt had banished and had become the voice of many boys and girls’. Similarly, to Martin Luther King Jr. as he told the audience the
