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2009: A New Beginning, a speech made by U.S. President Barack Obama which was designed to reframe relations between the Islamic world and the United States after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
Possibly the greatest policy focused speech Dr. King ever delivered! [97] July 23 "Message of the Riots" Unknown Speech Content is unknown but the archival information lists its length as 10 pages. [98] August 18 "Why I Must March" Chicago, IL Address at a Rally, speech content is unknown. [90] September 19 "Negros in History" Grenada, MS
The Cooper Union speech or address, known at the time as the Cooper Institute speech, [1] was delivered by Abraham Lincoln on February 27, 1860, at Cooper Union, in New York City. Lincoln was not yet the Republican nominee for the presidency, as the convention was scheduled for May. It is considered one of his most important speeches.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech at Dartmouth College in 1962 is sometimes forgotten, but it's a great example of the reverend's powerful rhetoric.In the talk, he first explains the sociological ...
Here are quotes from five of his most memorable speeches. " Give Us the Ballot ," delivered at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, Washington, D.C., May 17, 1957: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Read Bush’s full speech below: "Twenty years ago, we all found in different ways, in different places, but all at the same moment, that our lives would be changed forever.
Kennedy gave the speech, largely written by presidential advisor and speechwriter Ted Sorensen, to a large crowd at Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas. In his speech, Kennedy characterized space as a new frontier, invoking the pioneer spirit that dominated American folklore. He infused the speech with a sense of urgency and destiny, and ...
Sampson described it as the most effective speech of his career, whereas Gordimer thought the delivery to be "hesitant, parsonical" until "only at the end did the man come through and when he had spoken that last sentence the strangest and most moving sound I have ever heard from human throats, came from the 'black' side of the court audience" .