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1964: "Bodies upon the gears" speech by American activist and a key member in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Mario Savio. 1965: The American Promise by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, urging the United States Congress to pass a voting rights act prohibiting discrimination in voting on account of race and color in wake of the Bloody Sunday.
On a hot summer day in 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators calling for civil rights joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said Trump's claiming to be a free speech champion while attacking the media and harshly restricting how longtime civil servants can communicate with the public ...
The speech is also known as "Our God Is Marching On!" [77] May 1 Address delivered at Law Day U.S.A Philadelphia, PA [75] May 23 "How to Deal with Grief and Disappointment" Atlanta, GA [78] Contents of this speech are limited to the hand written outline King wrote (cited) June 6 "Modern Man's Crucial Problem" Atlanta, GA [75] June 14
The speech was written by Peggy Noonan. Washington, D.C. 1990: November 19 "The Brotherhood of Man". At the dedication of a monument to Winston Churchill, Reagan discusses the fall of the Berlin Wall the previous year. Fulton, MO 1992: August 17 "Empire of Ideals" was a speech delivered at the Republican National Convention.
During colonial times, English speech regulations were rather restrictive.The English criminal common law of seditious libel made criticizing the government a crime. Lord Chief Justice John Holt, writing in 1704–1705, explained the rationale for the prohibition: "For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion of it."
Restrictions on free speech are only permissible when the speech at issue is likely to produce a clear and present danger of a serious substantive evil that rises far above public inconvenience, annoyance, or unrest. [179] Justice William O. Douglas wrote for the Court that "a function of free speech under our system is to invite dispute. It ...
The Gettysburg Address is a famous speech which U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War.The speech was made at the formal dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg National Cemetery) in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated Confederate forces in the Battle of ...