Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama honored the late, great Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday with a couple of refreshingly fresh speeches. Be sure to give them a listen. There are some truly wonderful moments of rhetorical homage to one of the great orators of all time.

Barack Obama speaks at Martin Luther King’s own Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta:

Hillary Clinton offers her remarks at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem:

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