A collection of over forty historic speeches and speech excerpts from the twentieth century. Features Winston Churchill, Mohandas Gandhi, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Nelson Mandela, Ronald Reagan, the Dalai Lama, Cesar Chavez, and Barack Obama among other speakers.
Content Note
The natural wonder of the Grand Canyon (May 6, 1903) / Theodore Roosevelt -- What it means to be colored in the capital of the United States (October 10, 1906) / Mary Church Terrell -- What is patriotism? (May 1908) / Emma Goldman -- Light on the Indian situation (October 5, 1912) / Carlos Montezuma (Wassaja) -- Militant suffragists (November 13, 1913) / Emmeline Pankhurst -- An appeal to the nation (September 19, 1914) / David Lloyd George -- The dictatorship of the proletariat (March 4, 1919) / Vladimir Lenin -- Ahmedabad (April 14, 1919) / Mohandas K. Gandhi -- The handwriting is on the wall (August 31, 1921) / Marcus Garvey -- Morality of birth control (November 18, 1921) / Margaret Sanger -- Religious prejudice and politics (September 20, 1928) / Alfred E. Smith -- Ireland among the nations (February 6, 1933) / Eamon de Valera -- Address to the League of Nations (June 30, 1936) / Haile Selassie --
cont. -- Farewell address (December 11, 1936) / Edward VIII -- Blood, sweat and tears (May 13, 1940) / Winston Churchill -- The flame of French resistance (June 22, 1940) / Charles de Gaulle -- The arsenal of democracy (December 29, 1940) / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- The invasion of Normandy (May 17, 1944) / George S. Patton, Jr. -- Behold the land (October 20, 1946) / W.E.B. Du Bois -- A glory has departed (February 2, 1948) / Jawaharlal Nehru -- For freedom and peace (June 19, 1949) / Paul Robeson -- Declaration of conscience (June 1, 1950) / Margaret Chase Smith -- The United Nations as a bridge (December 17, 1954) / Eleanor Roosevelt -- The personality cult and its consequences (February 24-25, 1956) / Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev -- Duty, honor, country (May 12, 1962) / Douglas A. MacArthur -- The strategy for peace (June 10, 1963) / John F. Kennedy -- I have a dream (August 28, 1963) / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Colonialism is doomed (December 11, 1964) / Che Guevara -- The Mexican-American and the church (March 10, 1968) / César Chavez -- On Vietnam and on the decision not to seek reelection (March 31, 1968) / Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Equal rights for women (May 21, 1969) / Shirley Chisholm --
cont. -- Notes for a national broadcast (October 16, 1970) / Pierre Trudeau -- Response to "Zionism is racism" (November 10, 1975) / Chaim Herzog -- The hope speech (March 10, 1978) / Harvey Milk -- A left-handed commencement address (May 19, 1983) / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The megacorporate world of Ronald Reagan (June 6, 1984) / Ralph Nader -- The Berlin Wall (June 12, 1987) / Ronald Reagan -- Address to a rally in Cape Town on his release from prison (February 11, 1990) / Nelson Mandela -- Address to a joint session of Congress (Februrary 21, 1990) / Václav Havel -- National prayer breakfast speech (February 3, 1994) / Mother Teresa -- Opening keynote address, Fourth World Conference on Women (August 31, 1995) / Daw Aung San Suu Kyi -- "Male domination of women" Fourth World Conference on Women (September 4, 1995) / Benazir Bhutto -- The perils of indifference (April 12, 1999) / Elie Wiesel -- 9/11 (September 11, 2001) / Rudolph Giuliani -- Presidential election-night speech (November 5, 2008) / Barack Obama.