EQ: "How is language used to construct and communicate powerful messages that contribute to a shift in perspective or a change in society?"
Speeches you can choose from....
- "I believe in the law of love" by Clarence Darrow (Closing speech in defense of Henry Sweet, April 1926)
- "The world must be made safe for democracy" by Woodrow Wilson (Speech to Congress, April 1917)
- "There is no salvation for India" by Mohandas Gandhi (Varanasi, India, February 1916)
- "I have a dream" by Martin Luther King Jr. (March on Washington, August 1963)
- MLK - "I've seen the promised land" -- Memphis, Tennessee, April 1968
- JFK's Presidential Inaugural Address (January, 1961)
- Speeches by Michelle Obama (there are MANY to choose from)
- Speeches by Barack Obama (there are MANY to choose from)
- "The scientific history of radium is beautiful" by Marie Curie (On the discovery of radium, Vassar College, New York, May 1921)
- Emmeline Pankhurst, Speech on Women's suffrage, November 1913
- Abraham Lincoln - The Gettysburg Address, 1863
- ANY speech from a member of U.S. Congress (Senator or Representative)
- Napoleon Bonaparte - "Soldiers of my Old Guard: I bid you farewell" -- Farewell to the Old Guard, April 1814
- Thomas Jefferson's Inaugural Address, Washington, March 1801 ("We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.")
- George Washington's Farewell Address, September 1796
- Oliver Cromwell, " Dismissal of the Rump Parliament, April 1653
- Queen Elizabeth - Speech to the English Troops at Tilbury, 1588
- St. Francis of Assisi, Sermon to the birds (c. 1220)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt - Inaugural Address, March 1933 "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt - Speech to Congress - "A date which will live in infamy" (December, 1941)
- Charles de Gaulle - Appeal of 18 June 1940 "the flame of French resistance must not and shall not die."
- General George S. Patton Jr. - Speech to the US Third Army on the even of D-Day, June 1944
- Jawaharlal Nehru, Speech on the granting of Indian Independence, August 1947
- General Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address to Congress, Washington April 1951
- Nelson Mandela, "I am the First Accused" - Pretoria, April 1964
- Nelson Mandela, "Free at last" Johannesburg, May 1994
- Eamon de Valera, Speech on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Easter Rising, April 1966
- JFK - Ich bin ein Berliner - At the Berlin Wall, June 1963
- Malcolm X - Detroit, 1965 "You can't hate the roots of a tree, and not hate the tree."
- Shirley Chisholm, Speech to Congress, May 1969 - "I have been far oftener discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black."
- Indira Gandhi, New Delhi, India, 1974 "Women's education is almost more important than the education of boys and men."
- Mother Theresa "Love begins at home" - Speech on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, Norway, December 1979
- Ronald Reagan, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" - Speech at the Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany June 1987
- Elie Wiesel - "The perils of indifference" - the Seventh White House Millennium Evening, Washington 1999
- Malala Yousafzai (you must be specific)
- Frederick Douglass (you must be specific)
- ANY inaugural address by a U.S. President
- ANY Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
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