SPEECH PROJECT

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

YOU ARE ALSO ALLOWED TO CHOOSE YOUR OWN SPEECH AND GET IT APPROVED BY MS. PARK.

FYI, SPEECHES BY CLINTON OR TRUMP ARE NOT ALLOWED AT THIS TIME.