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I Have a Dream, August 28, 1963; 61 years ago (August 28, 1963) , Educational Radio Network [1] " I Have a Dream " is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister [2] Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. In the speech, King called for civil ...
Ronald Reagan. The full text of the speech at Wikisource. On June 12, 1987, at the Brandenburg Gate, United States president Ronald Reagan delivered a speech commonly known by a key line from the middle part: " Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! " Reagan called for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to open the Berlin Wall, which had encircled ...
The American University speech, titled " A Strategy of Peace ", was a commencement address delivered by United States President John F. Kennedy at the American University in Washington, D.C., on Monday, June 10, 1963. [1] Widely considered one of the most powerful speeches Kennedy delivered, [2] he not only outlined a plan to curb nuclear arms ...
I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made ...
6 October 1939 Reichstag speech. Hitler's 6 October 1939 Reichstag speech was a speech given by Adolf Hitler shortly after the Invasion of Poland. It featured Hitler's penultimate offer of peace to the Western Allies.
The Chance for Peace speech, also known as the Cross of Iron speech, was an address given by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on April 16, 1953, shortly after the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Speaking only three months into his presidency, Eisenhower likened arms spending to stealing from the people, and evoked William Jennings ...
I Am Prepared to Die. " I Am Prepared to Die " was a three-hour speech given by Nelson Mandela on 20 April 1964 from the dock at the Rivonia Trial. [1] The speech is so titled because it ended with the words "it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die". It is considered one of the great speeches of the 20th century, and a key moment in the ...
"I Am a Catalan" is the name given to a short speech given by cellist and humanist Pau Casals in front of the General Assembly of the United Nations on 24 October 1971. Casals was in front of the assembly to present the " Hymn of the United Nations " composed by himself and to receive the U.N. Peace Medal in recognition of his stance on peace ...