| 100% | MLKJR | 5 | Jan. honoree who delivered the 1957 “Give Us the Ballot” speech |
| 45% | VOTINGRIGHTS | 12 | Subject of 34-Across’ “Give Us the Ballot” speech |
| 40% | KING | 4 | Who delivered the speech "When Peace Becomes Obnoxious" |
| 40% | MLK | 3 | Rev. who delivered the "I have a dream" speech |
| 39% | ALIGHIERI | 9 | Dante __, writer who gave us the Divine Comedy |
| 39% | HORACE | 6 | Poet who gave us the phrase "carpe diem" |
| 38% | INCAS | 5 | People who gave us the words "llama" and "quinoa" |
| 38% | AMANDA | 6 | Gorman who delivered the inaugural poem “The Hill We Climb” |
| 37% | HAUER | 5 | Rutger who delivered the "tears in rain" speech in "Blade Runner" |
| 37% | RWE | 3 | Monogram of the one who delivered the speech entitled "The American Scholar" |
| 35% | AESOP | 5 | Ancient Greek who gave us the phrases "sour grapes" and "the boy who cried wolf" |
| 34% | SPEECH | 6 | Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s “Give Us the Ballot,” for one |
| 33% | NEWTON | 6 | Sir Isaac ___, English physicist who gave us the laws of motion and has a wax statue at Madame Tussauds, London |
| 33% | MLK | 3 | Initials of the civil rights leader who gave the "I have a dream" speech |
| 32% | TAYLOR | 6 | Elizabeth ___, actress who gave a speech at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert |
| 32% | DYLAN | 5 | Nobel laureate who delivered his acceptance speech only 5 days before becoming ineligible to receive the award |
| 32% | ANGIE | 5 | Thomas who wrote “The Hate U Give” |
| 31% | ABE | 3 | Lincoln who gave the "House Divided Speech," which hints at this puzzle's theme |
| 31% | ANCHORS | 7 | People who deliver the nightly news |
| 31% | BRONZE | 6 | The medal given to the person who finishes third |
| 30% | ABE | 3 | Lincoln who delivered the Gettysburg Address, fondly |
| 30% | ERSE | 4 | Language that gave us the word "whisky" |
| 30% | INUIT | 5 | Language that gave us the word "igloo" |
| 30% | GREEK | 5 | Alphabet that gave us the word "alphabet" |
| 30% | URDU | 4 | Language which gave us the word "calico" |
| 30% | RUR | 3 | Play that gave us the word "robot" |
| 30% | WELSH | 5 | Language that gave us the word "flummery" |
| 30% | OLDIRISH | 8 | Language that gave us the word banshee |
| 30% | EULOGY | 6 | Speech given to the dead |
| 30% | WHATADISGRACE | 13 | ... the gal who delivered the greatest put-down ever |