How were Martin Luther King Jr. and Thomas Jefferson alike?

Both Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King Jr. were outstanding users of the English language. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech is still quoted today, and Thomas Jefferson's "Declaration of Independence" has offered hope to revolutionaries all over the world. King was a better speaker and this played well to television and radio audiences while Jefferson was excellent with the written word—this was essential to a period that used handbills and pamphlets as ways to get out information. Both men sought to change the social order of society. Jefferson believed that the people could govern themselves without relying on the arbitrary rule of a king while King believed that black and white races were equal.
Both men were interested in equality, though Jefferson looked only at equality for white males, while King wanted all races treated equally. Both men also had their detractors. In Jefferson's case, his detractors thought that he was too radical and that the people were not capable of self-government. In King's case, there were some that thought that blacks and whites would never get along and that segregation was the natural order of things.