Remarks by President Clinton at Coretta Scott King's funeral

A moving speech given by President Bill Clinton at Coretta Scott King's funeral on February 7, 2006.

[@FalconTalk]

Thanks Louis

[@CoatCheckDream.]

Yup lol. And Shane.

[@28ksam]

There's a woman in there!

[@you-younot-not432]

ahahahahahahahhaa YES!

[@rgbii3224]

Bill has always been smooth...

[@tighmir]

I think this great woman deserves a day of her own...

[@greenbay3164]

Nah that's a little much

[@hookedonhustle5103]

@@greenbay3164 if only she and her husband looked at the state of the world and said, “nah that’s a little much.” WOW.

[@VikkiGaston]

If Bill wasn't a politician, he could've been a pastor.

[@dharmony07]

AMEN. Yes he’s a great speaker & possibly can teach pastors, preachers, bishops, speaking classes.

[@davidmckibben1931]

What would he be a Satan worshiper him and his wife have. Buried. Lot of their problems the dead can't speak can they Clinton

[@JOEGUIDE77]

Mrs King was a wonderful woman, with a great big heart and great compassion, and raised a wonderful family. I enjoyed taking a class at CTS in Decatur which she was a special speaker on the subject: "Civil Rights and Pastoral Leadership" back in 1987. "Her children shall arise and call her blessed".

[@MsAnniethomas]

As a family member who was in the audience I was glad when President Clinton checked folks and reminded them that this was a funeral.

[@DD-d6d3]

Bless you

[@billyruffin4692]

As a nearly 60 year old black man I count Bill Clinton as my ALL TIME favorite politician- even above Barack Obama. When Clinton was in office it was the FIRST time that I felt as an African American that America was MY country also. President Clinton was a true friend and advocate for Blacks and had a REAL cultural connection to us that makes him STILL TODAY one of Black people's ALL TIME FAVORITE HUMAN BEINGS.

[@leejacob3640]

Speeches with no concrete tangibles for black people.. black people wake the hell up and stop accepting this empty speech mess

[@ElGancha]

trump 2024 and beyond

[@mgeek1]

It was hardly a funeral at all. It was almost like an award show. I'm not sure I liked the tone of the whole ceremony. I'm glad President Clinton offered a little perspective after all of the rhetoric that was offered that day.

[@OFFICIAL.LEWISVEVO]

It was a celebration for Mrs king ..being from ATL the city was so sad when she passed it was a sad week . We had cried out tears and had to realize she lived a full life and she seen much more than what most of us has seen .regardless of her hard life here on earth

[@leejacob3640]

Look brother you sound like a intelligent person this is all foolishness even with this Clinton speech.. the clintons did a lot of damage to black people and one of the creators of the prison industrial complex. Notice how he purposely don't speak about King being assassinated by this government

[@leejacob3640]

King was assassinated for demanding economic change I'm tired of my black people accepting this symbolism from these white supremacist.. my question to my people is where are the economic policies and executive orders for black people.. they issue out these policies and executive orders to other groups but tell us what they can't do for us... this is nothing but a campaign to keep the Democrats in office we need to stop falling for this BS .no concrete tangibles no vote.. The King Family should never allow this this is a disgrace and I'm very disappointed with the King family

[@gerryjacobs8785]

Clinton is the best ever. The guy knows how to capture a room, wherever it may be. What separates him is that despite him being the ultimate politician, he makes you feel that it's real and that he's speaking to you personally. An amazing gift. He stole the show yet was true to the moment for a woman of Coretta Scott King's stature. I loved watching him but I never forgot that it was about Mrs. King.

[@Krobra91]

i think its also the fact that he was a flawed president. and that makes him probably more human the previous presidents.

[@DD-d6d3]

All these years later, he still makes me cry with this. Genius of an orator.

[@michaeld9682]

Pedophile

[@BellaRevolutionTV]

That's how he talks. He's from Arkansas. I think he puts on a different dialect when he has to speak to people outside the south.

[@dab7271]

@mgeek1 african american funerals have always had a more celebratory tone when the person has lived a long and full life. the idea is less to mourn the person's death and more to celebrate his/her life and all that he/she has done.

[@crystalgrose]

BILL CLINTON TURNED SO RED AS THE CROWD CHEERED FOR HIM :)

[@WWAHP]

Love this speech! Thank you very much for this post. GOD BLESS YOU and may your blessing be like a river flowing in the ocean.

[@wjohnjr]

Thank you for sharing this…Right on👊🏾

[@nomibe2911]

@apocalipsis82 Most black funerals are a celebration of life.

[@standardsal]

Anyone notice the casket before the stage? Yes, a funeral can be a celebration of life, but let's take it easy.

[@ItsTMY]

i remember watching this LIVE

[@beeharris8691]

why does every videos have interruptions?????

[@quakingaspen23]

For the love of God, this video is about Correta King, not Bill Clinton. Calm down and just take this video for what it is: the legacy of a the wife of one of the greatest Americans ever. Please leave all politics aside.

[@phylliswong7972]

"...AND OUR FUTURE PRESIDENT..." at 1:55, LOL! Lord have mercy...I love this speech...very moving...

[@avon_mack]

I didn't hear " future president" at all

[@leejacob3640]

The Clinton is evil and black people ought to be ashamed of themselves for being easily misled.. black people need to stop being personality-driven and demand for concrete tangibles instead of empty symbolic speeches.. go look at dr. King speeches demanding for economics changes. he speaks about this country owes us a debt.. black people are out here applauding this foolishness.. the clintons are apart of this prison industrial complex 3 Strikes mass incarceration policies created by Joe Biden.. open your eyes sister and look at the facts

[@klimaxxx06]

@@leejacob3640 shut the hell up Clinton was the best in generations.

[@raeganwright889]

I heard former 😂

[@cathycollazo9322]

Thank You 💕💕💋

[@raisingconsciousness777]

It's too bad they edited out the part where he apologized for the US government murdering MLK :(

[@brendagray4958]

@Dan Wruck not true i watched this live and have it on dvd unedited.

[@timbredan3476]

@@brendagray4958 wait can you source this?

[@aarondigby5054]

Bill's a creep and so is Killary.

[@andycaylor12]

Bill Clinton’s southern Baptist pastor came out hard with this one

[@xrangerx]

"I lied about the war and dragged america back 100 years" -Bush and GOPs

[@OFFICIAL.LEWISVEVO]

Mrs.king was fearless can you imagine how scary that was going back freely with a crowd and marching where her husband was killed

[@carloswright9471]

no pradeep narayanan Lyndon Johnson Did ?

[@UltraTalented]

Bill Clinton sure can give a good speech one of the best or the greatest president of all time. People are just giving Obama a hard time let the men change the country!

[@davidmckibben1931]

I wouldn't want him doing the eulogy speech over my family

[@lovishsingh7320]

Luka’a Playlist???!

[@lou1323]

Mr. Clinton is a great great speecher. I love when he talks to a crowed. He´s on of the best. BUT... i think he was so unapropiate in this ocasion. This wasn´t a comedy show. Martin Luther Kin´s Widow was in front of him. In a casket for God sake! Show some respect to the lady! And everybody laughing like nothing happened.

[@aysatisharris2555]

+Luis Carlos Abreu Gil You are very unaware of how we, in the African American culture, act at funerals, or as we like to call the "Homegoing Celebrations". We laugh, cry, dance, sing, shout, and celebrate a life well lived and them going home to heaven. President Clinton is aware seeing as how he has spoken at and attended several African American funerals so for you what he was doing may seem inappropriate but for us its just a normal homegoing.

[@lou1323]

Maybe you´re right. It´s a different culture. I didn´t know that. you know your culture more than me.

[@DD-d6d3]

+Aysatis Harris it takes a hell of a white man to preach at a Baptist funeral

[@reginataylorhines]

Still so beautiful.

[@lisaharris9083]

HE'S WORRY TO BE PRAISED.

[@blinginlike3p0]

@cmhmuscle w isn't squirming, ( i guess except for the light riff on him at the beginning). at times in the speech i think he is feeling the speech a lot and showing a lot of emotion.

[@timbredan3476]

Why people screaming and hollering like they won the lottery??! 😂😂😂

[@lisaharris9083]

I MUST TELL JESUS. ABOUT ALL OF MY PEOBLEMS. JESUS CAN HELP ME JESUS ALONE.

[@uforeader]

wow, what a speaker...

[@ThisIsGonnaBFine]

@Drew.....Amen! You hit that on the Head!

[@campra]

man shut the hell up

[@kevindagame]

agreed

[@beestilllee4669]

amen amen amen

[@beestilllee4669]

amen

[@mgeek1]

@dab7271 I understand all of that, but this is not what that was. I watched the funeral when it originally aired. It took on too political a tone, where you had these politicians trying to one-up each other with one-liners. I was like a political rally instead of a funeral. It wasn't appropriate for the occasion.

[@mangrumnmichael]

"AW come on . . . no matter ANYONE'S political persuasions, this is a FUNERAL and so, IF Coretta Scott King is/was a LIBERAL, then so be it . . . I am as conservative as they come (Test ME if you will . . .), BUT . . . this is a Funeral . . . Don't tell me that we CONSERVS . . . would not want the very same consideration at such a time . . ."

[@SnakesGaming2016]

bill clinton is a master orator. wow. what a tribute. what a speech.

[@Kimani_AkA_Momo]

Mahn this has got to be the best orator of all time. I love me some Bill Clinton

[@dsanders799]

You love bill are you gay he or she has not done nothing

[@djisrich2]

@@dsanders799 shut up

[@dsanders799]

@@djisrich2 you shut up you coward don't like truth oh well

[@dsanders799]

You love him you are insane just sick

[@dsanders799]

Tell bill to shut up let's see how tough you say it to him

[@whamfan87]

Like I said, I don't agree with his personal choices. Thanks for replying to my comment, I kind of forgot about this video! Check out 2:44, after Clinton makes his joke you can see George Bush Jr say to Laura, "What?"

[@chesterjoseph7799]

This is real Time

[@xHelenPx]

imagine the response if Bush had been introduced!

[@brendagray4958]

He turned it down

[@alfredbrownii]

Ms King said hi to Dr King for us

[@vergerinesalone8853]

I will always admire Clinton, he is real but not perfect..

[@Youdidnthearme]

Monica Lewinsky apparently fit the bill as well lol what should I say she was enjoying bill 🤣🤣

[@davfrui]

I SO NEEDED TO HEAR THIS TODAY.. THANK YOU MY PRESIDENT. APRIL 4TH 1968 MY BIRTHDAY I WAS 11 YEARS OLD... MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR WAS MURDERED.. I WILL NEVER FORGET..

[@DD-d6d3]

Many of us remember and walk in solidarity with you

[@mchan2141]

Im sorry your birthday is the day MLK was killed its bittersweet for you

[@annguyendoan7189]

Tri thức + cứu dinh

[@moneystacka86]

Lol at bill clintons dialect when addressing a black audience

[@user-vw1fh3qm1l]

My greatest president.

[@jmizzwhite]

@willthebest1 you couldn't have said it any better,step also,making that long speech as if he knew her,so disrespectful.

[@iaccik]

I love Hillary who stands beside Bill, she is such a intelligent, beautiful and graceful lady!!!! Love Hillary!!!!!!!! I would love to watch and hear Hillary make a speech as well!!!!!!!!

[@keaukahaboy9355]

Bush sitting in the back wish he could get this kind of cheers

[@SteelAVic18]

@ministertwan u a mess. It was fanfare event.

[@VitorOliveira-cc7lg]

Louis CK broguht me here.

[@28ksam]

Best podcast series

[@1995DLB]

Bishop Bill Clinton and First Lady Hilary Clinton...Lol!!!

[@rickyjackson5578]

Davonte Brown lol the Presiding Bishop and First Lady 😂😂😂

[@07GSXR1G]

Glory be to the Almighty GOD!!

[@garyconner6151]

Something else trump will never receive.a warm welcome.

[@globaldigitaldirectsubsidi4493]

This wooing is disgraceful at a funeral and that for a president who enacted policies in direct contradiction to MLK´s movement.

[@TSquared2001]

@powwowlls That is if and when Congress stops getting in the way and acting like spoiled rotten kids

[@bishopjon]

What a laugh thatt would have been!

[@scorpi972]

Cheer for the man caused mass incarceration

[@vanessadorahill292]

Amen to that.

[@leonardclark9128]

Him and Joe Biden

[@joshuaalexander6296]

It started under Nixon and Reagan.

[@shander21]

hillary's expression through all this is so typical.

[@Nerd.Immunity.]

No one was better than Bill at these types of speeches; he knew exactly what to say, typical demagogue.

[@ohiocash330]

@Pradeep006 no president ever did shit for me

[@leejacob3640]

That's right brother this is a campaign speech to keep ignorant black people support these old black preachers are so pathetic

[@shander21]

prime example of hillary being overshadowed by bill...haha

[@lisajohnsoneinhorn]

People forget

[@BenClason]

Great speech Trump

[@deloresrichardson3242]

😮 n.

[@odelloutlerloveless6536]

8 I'm

[@whamfan87]

Clinton is THE best speaker of all time. Sure I disagree with his personal choices, but he's the best president any of us will perhaps ever see. I'm prepared for your anti-Clinton remarks, but I've said my bit

[@bishopjon]

lol.... It would of been so funny!

[@papiblackchulo]

hahahahahha FROZEN CHOOSING BUSH!!!

[@sidneygreen7693]

I love the clintons

[@princeshadricklindsey5721]

I Love me some Clinton's

[@michaeld9682]

Why not praise Jeffrey Epstien while you are at it?

[@scottdevaney6201]

Shame on those who push they're beliefs or sordid beliefs when a woman of character has been lost. Is it possible for you to shut your mouth and just listen? She was an awe inspiring lady who selflessly worked for bettering people. She was NOT an AFRICAN AMERICAN. No such thing. If your born in our great nation then your a American, period. She didn't ask anything of you. She didn't ask for the attention her funeral received.

[@simondilling400]

Well, she was African-American since for both her and her assassinated husband it was important to also embrace their African heritage. To have a black consciousness and African awareness as an essential part of black identity.

[@BUYUKYILMAZ]

JFK and Bill Clinton are the best presidents of the United States.:-)

[@javonfoster8646]

Hillary 2016.

[@thecartoonboy9999]

No

[@mikegrant814]

thecartoonboy999 Lmfaoo no indeed

[@tadsanders5043]

Remember when Bill Clinton mattered?

[@mochawitch]

Now if the clintons would just go away...

[@actsismmljcorrectlyobeyed6190]

What a sickening display.

[@IndependentRationale]

honorable?...lol adultery doesn't matter at this church apparently...remember people "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina twice"...

[@setk]

vote clinton 08

[@adrian993]

After his comments in the Primary, he'll never get a reception like that from a black audience again...

[@polycarpx]

Bill Clinton's remarks were an insult to the legacy of Coretta Scott King. Thankfully, Obama got the last laugh.

[@bluedevil0704]

Good thing he didnt say 'future president." Trump Baby. #MAGA2020