It may not be the most rousing or inflammatory of speeches, but it was certainly persuasive in voicing the importance of taking a strong stand for the economic reforms Deng was implementing to benefit Chinese citizens in the long run. Back when AIDS research was still undeveloped, the stigma of contracting HIV was even more immense than it is today. September 12, 1962: Moon Speech, John F. Kennedy. Our team is based in Singapore offering creative, consulting and training services to Fortune 500 clientele. To them this government has no just powers derived from the consent of the governed. She refused to pay the $100 fine in a bid to reject the demands of the American system she denounced as a hateful oligarchy of sex, sparking change with her righteous oratory and inspiring many others in the womens suffrage movement within and beyond America. In 1913 after Suffragette Emily Davison stepped in front of King George Vs horse at the Epsom Derby and suffered fatal injuries, Emmeline Pankhurst delivered her speech to Connecticut as a call to action for people to support the suffragette movement. We dedicate this occasion to the struggle for self-determination of all women, of every color, identification, or derived class: the poet, the housewife, the lesbian, the mathematician, the mother, the dishwasher, the pregnant teen-ager, the teacher, the grandmother, the prostitute, the philosopher, the waitress, the women who will understand what we are doing here and those who will not understand yet; the silent women whose voices have been denied us, the articulate women who have given us strength to do our work.. Why are you beset with gloom? Among free men the end cannot justify the means. Demosthenes, "The Third Philippic" 5. But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talk about much in the great outside world of wanting and achieving. It is our duty. My last article about happiness emphasizes the fact that many of us measure success simply by how happy we are most of the time. 1. There is so much suffering, so much hatred, so much misery, and we with our prayer, with our sacrifice are beginning at home. I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! To this day, his fierce activism and devotion to exposing virulent racism for what it was has left a lasting legacy upon pro-Black social movements and the overall sociopolitical landscape of America. Though with recent accusations of the prime minister being With her steadfast, stolid rhetoric and radical theorization, she paved the way for many womens rights activists and writers to forge their own paths against patriarchal authority. The military families who say grace each night with an empty seat at the table. In this determined and articulate speech, she outlines the fundamental values that form the bedrock of democracy, urging the rest of the world to uphold human rights regardless of national ideology and interests. In her vindication of the rights of women, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the pioneers of the feminist movement back in 1792 who not only theorised and advocated revolutionarily, but gave speeches that voiced these challenges against a dominantly sexist society intent on classifying women as irrational less-than-human creatures to be enslaved as they were. If the Government keep me free, I will not put on the Government the strain of maintaining a large number of prisoners at a time, when it is in trouble. Given the dangerous times he was in as an openly gay man, he anticipated that he would be assassinated eventually in his political career. I could work as much and eat as much as a man when I could get it and bear the lash as well! Jeff Bezos, What Matters More Than Your Talents John C. Bogle, Enough Bren Brown, The Anatomy of Trust John Cleese, Creativity in Management William Deresiewicz, Solitude and Leadership Richard Feynman, Seeking New Laws Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art John W. Gardner, Personal Renewal Elizabeth Gilbert, Your Elusive Creative Genius She displayed tenacity and fearlessness speaking about her survival of an assassination attempt for her activism for gender equality in the field of education. Whatever may be their use in civilised societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action. Nay, the order of society as it is at present regulated would not be inverted, for woman would then only have the rank that reason assigned her, and arts could not be practised to bring the balance even, much less to turn it.. It prompts us cool-headedly to consider the past and the future. To him your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mock; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There are, it may be, many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. There is no family or community, no race or religion, no place left in America that is safe. Raising uncomfortable truths about the insidious nature of racism post-civil war, he provides several nuggets of thought-provoking wisdom on the state of relations between the oppressed and their oppressors, and what is necessary to mediate such relations and destroy the exploitative thread of racist hatred. Im not talking about blind optimism here the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just dont think about it, or the health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it. Let that be your pledge. Hope Hope in the face of difficulty. I rise To the modern ear it reads like a lecture on constitutional history and powers. Do they know that those who nowadays patronise or frequent cinemas and theatres which exist only in Rangoon and a few big towns, belong generally to middle and upper classes and the very few of the many poor who can attend at all are doing so as a desperate form of relaxation just to make them forget their unsupportable existences for the while whatever may be the tomorrow that awaits them?. The purpose of a speech is important because it lets the speaker and audience know the ultimate outcome of the speech. We are, let me say again, the sincere friends of the German people, and shall desire nothing so much as the early reestablishment of intimate relations of mutual advantage between ushowever hard it may be for them, for the time being, to believe that this is spoken from our hearts. Diggin in my own backyard. He spoke outdoors on a cold and wet day without wearing a proper coat or hat. Esteemed writer David Foster Wallace gave a remarkably casual yet wise commencement speech at Kenyon College in 2005 on the importance of learning to think beyond attaining a formal education. Because the truth is none of us can be liberated if other groups are not.. With this speech setting an effective precedent for her call to equalize women before the law, she also went on to champion the provision of equal educational opportunities to women and girls, and persuasively argued against the patriarchal gender norms which prevented women from finding their own lot in life through their being locked into traditional institutions of marriage and motherhood against their will. The Obamas might just have been the most articulate couple of rhetoricians of their time, making waves as the first African American president and First Lady while introducing important policies in their period of governance. Mandela continues to remind us today of his moral conviction in leading, wherein the world would likely to be a better place if all politicians had the same resolve and genuine commitment to human rights and the abolition of oppression as he did. In this renowned speech of hers, she delivers a potent message to Burmese to liberate their minds from apathy and fear in the struggle for freedom and human rights in the country. You may write me down in history In the mean time, my lieutenant general shall be in my stead, than whom never prince commanded a more noble or worthy subject; not doubting but by your obedience to my general, by your concord in the camp, and your valour in the field, we shall shortly have a famous victory over these enemies of my God, of my kingdom, and of my people.. I answer, a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. But then, I didn't really believe she had one. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. Her powerful writing and speech about living on the margins of society has enlightened millions of people discriminated across various intersections, confronting them with the reality that they must speak since their silence will not protect them from further marginalization. So my countrys purpose is to help us to move out of the dark chamber of horrors into the light, to find a way by which the minds of men, the hopes of men, the souls of men everywhere, can move forward towards peace and happiness and well-being.. We shall either free India or die in the attempt; we shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery. With great frankness, he admits to not having all the answers but provides hard-hitting wisdom on engagement to guide activists through confounding times nonetheless. All I ask is for the movement to continue, and if a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door. In this emotional end to her political tenure, she gives an empowering, hopeful, expressive speech to young Americans, exhorting them to take hold of its future in all their diversity and work hard at being their best possible selves. Today, China is an economic superpower, far from its war-torn developing country status before Dengs leadership thanks to his foresight in ensuring political stability would allow China to enjoy the fruits of the massive changes they adapted to. A model of courage to us all, her speech remains an essential one in the fight for human rights in the 21st century. I rise She courageously and relentlessly advocated for womens rights, giving speeches all over the USA to convince people of womens human rights to choice and the ballot. These are the signs of reaction, retreat, and retrogression. This again shows you, comrades, that in all countries of the world real preparations are being made to rally the forces of the working class. Pointing to the great responsibility of the Bolshevik Party, as ruling Party of the Soviet state, Lenin called for the most meticulous observance of all norms of Party life; he called for the realization of the principles of collegiality in the direction of the Party and the state. Look at my arm! I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects; and therefore I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live and die amongst you all; to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust. What do you need to say? Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrims pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!. Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. He urged Americans to remember their common roots, heritage and the importance of charity for all, to ensure a just and lasting peace among within the country despite throes of racial division and self-determination. You may trod me in the very dirt The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.. On August 2, 2012, former U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan, another of the worlds most famous negotiators, announced he was resigning as the special peace envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League to the conflict in Syria. Not while finite humans make infinite claims of virtue and unassailable power that are beyond their competence, if not their reach. This clip of Reverend Jim Standridge exploded onto the internet in 2013, after he brutally accosted his parishioners for falling asleep during his sermon and for having a poor church attendance record. In each generation and in each country there must be a continuation of the struggle and new steps forward must be taken since this is preeminently a field in which to stand still is to retreat.. Look at me! Its the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs; the hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores; the hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta; the hope of a millworkers son who dares to defy the odds; the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too. You can read the text of the speech here. The millions who are starving, the millions who are sacrificing their lives in the trenches, are not only suffering, they are also gathering strength, are pondering over the real cause of the war, are becoming more determined and are acquiring a clearer revolutionary understanding. No, this right has to be earned every single day. There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance and fear. That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. We shall, happily, still have an opportunity to prove that friendship in our daily attitude and actions toward the millions of men and women of German birth and native sympathy who live among us and share our life, and we shall be proud to prove it toward all who are in fact loyal to their neighbors and to the government in the hour of test. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world. The answers to these big questions show that we have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years. Only that way will we start to achieve our rights. Help trainers engage your audiences effectively. If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! Winston Churchill was the extraordinary exception lifting 1940 Britain out of the darkness with his hopeful, convicted rhetoric to galvanise the English amidst bleak, dreary days of war and loss. Even the most hardened politician will hesitate to take upon himself directly the responsibility of sacrificing the lives of women of undoubted honour, of undoubted earnestness of purpose. He evidently has adopted his late mothers attitude toward the Royal Family, blames them for her demise, and is doing everything he and his wife can think of to cause them pain. That is real freedom. Unethical speeches? To quote Count Rugen in The Princess Bride: I dont think Im quite familiar with that phrase. 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