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. Davisons speech is at times funny and cringe-inducing, but a serves as a powerful reminder that giving a speech is never about overpowering your listeners. The empty classrooms, the lost childhoods, wasted potential-let these things end with us.. Because I did not inject drugs, I was not at risk. It is our fundamental belief in the power of hope that has allowed us to rise above the voices of doubt and division, of anger and fear that we have faced in our own lives and in the life of this country. Our struggle is a truly national one. In an unexpected commencement speech delivered at Vassar College in 1970, Gloria Steinem boldly makes a call to action on behalf of marginalized groups in need of liberation to newly graduated students. I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! Into a daybreak thats wondrously clear Despite his isolationism and anti-war position earlier in his tenure as president, he convinced Congress that America had a moral duty to the world to step out of their neutral observer status into an active role of world leadership and stewardship in order to liberate attacked nations from their German aggressors. In his genuine passion for the rights of the working class, he urged fellow comrades to turn the imperialist war into a civil or class war of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie. And in this manner, the organizations will increase in number and in quantity and in quality, and by August, it is then our intention to have a black nationalist convention which will consist of delegates from all over the country who are interested in the political, economic and social philosophy of black nationalism. Naturally, the revolutionary activist Gandhi had to appear in this list for his impassioned anti-colonial speeches which rallied Indians towards independence. There are, it may be, many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. 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. Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment. We can reach the moon and maybe soon will land on Mars. But we are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. It prompts us cool-headedly to consider the past and the future. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. Given the dangerous times he was in as an openly gay man, he anticipated that he would be assassinated eventually in his political career. Two things we shall do. She displayed tenacity and fearlessness speaking about her survival of an assassination attempt for her activism for gender equality in the field of education. She proclaimed it the year of Womens Liberation and forcefully highlighted the need for a social revolution to upset the injustice of the current hierarchy in favour of human rights echoing the hard-hitting motto on social justice, until all of us are free, none of us are free. Deng then gave this astute and well-regarded speech, outlining the political complexities in shutting down student protests given the context of reforms encouraging economic liberalization already taking place, as aligned with the students desires. After escaping from slavery, he went on to become a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York with his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Because I dont think we can any longer rely on separation of powers, free speech, religious tolerance or unchallengeable civil liberties as a matter of course. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. Actually it can be more liberating than any imagined future if you are willing to identify its evasions, its distortions, its lies, and are willing to unleash its secrets.. Because people with HIV have not entered some alien state of being. Do they judge this question of money circulation by paying a stray visit to a local bazaar? 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 it, Mr. Jones commits one of the greatest public speaking faux pas. Considering the question of the cult of an individual, we must first of all show everyone what harm this caused to the interests of our Party. #1: EnronThe energy company's bankruptcy in 2001 after allegations of massive accounting fraud wiped out $78 billion in stock market value and led to the collapse of Arthur Andersen and the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Our hope that if we work hard enough and believe in ourselves, then we can be whatever we dream, regardless of the limitations that others may place on us. Speakers have a responsibility to educate their audiences. Doesnt matter what topic, youre speaking to audiences for a reason. You dont want to Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, If there should be disloyalty, it will be dealt with with a firm hand of stern repression; but, if it lifts its head at all, it will lift it only here and there and without countenance except from a lawless and malignant few. Under British colonial rule, one of the most legendary nationalist leaders emerged from the ranks of the thousands of Burmese to boldly lead them towards independence, out of the exploitation and control under the British. Identify the most effective learning modality for your team, 3. I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I do not shrink from this responsibilityI welcome it. 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. That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so emphatically upon the inferiority of women, for if they were not inferior, they would cease to enlarge. Itll be the ballot or the bullet. Many of us feel we are at a point in our lives when the presence of meaning at work has become essential. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is in space. Examples of The US It is to God Almightyhow much we do it does not matter, because He is infinite, but how much love we put in that action. They are, most of them, as true and loyal Americans as if they had never known any other fealty or allegiance. By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself. Let him not think that protests will produce surrender. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. Some have speculated his speech was so long because he was from the countryside and wanted to convince listeners that he was an educated man and a skilled orator. 1. Up from a past thats rooted in pain They will have a great story line, and a 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. The hope that when people see us for who we truly are, maybe, just maybe they, too, will be inspired to rise to their best possible selves.. Tesco was struggling to shore up revenues while under attack from the discounters Aldi and Lidl. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do. They have not earned cruelty, and they do not deserve meanness. But still, like dust, Ill rise. Just like hopes springing high, As we are living in the modern age, the 21st century and we all believe that nothing is impossible. His mannerisms are reminiscent of the time former Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer tried to rev up his audience during a company leadership event. If the purpose of a speech is unethical it means that it seeks to accomplish something bad. That is real freedom. I certainly hope I can be. That would do more to end prejudice overnight than anybody could imagine. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.. September 12, 1962: Moon Speech, John F. Kennedy. #5: Tyco InternationalIn 2002, Tyco Internationals bosses were found to have siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars out of the maker of electrical, healthcare and safety equipment. Demosthenes, "The Third Philippic" 5. As such, these are some of his last words which show the utter devotion he had to campaigning against homophobia while representing the American people, voicing his heartbreaking wish for the bullet that would eventually kill him to destroy every closet door. With the certainty of tides, The answer is a petty, untrustworthy person. To pause there would be to confirm the hopeless finality of a belief that two atomic colossi are doomed malevolently to eye each other indefinitely across a trembling world. So I want our young people to continue to learn and practice those values with pride. There is so much suffering, so much hatred, so much misery, and we with our prayer, with our sacrifice are beginning at home. 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. Further, should experience prove that they cannot attain the same degree of strength of mind, perseverance, and fortitude, let their virtues be the same in kind, though they may vainly struggle for the same degree; and the superiority of man will be equally clear, if not clearer; and truth, as it is a simple principle, which admits of no modification, would be common to both. We may be doing social work in the eyes of the people, but we are really contemplatives in the heart of the world. Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no State has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities. Why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so difficult? With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth Gods work must truly be our own.. We have no selfish ends to serve. It is a distressing and oppressive duty, gentlemen of the Congress, which I have performed in thus addressing you. Each of them is exactly what God made: a person not evil, deserving of our judgment not victims, longing for our pity people, ready for support and worthy of compassion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. Let every man and woman live every moment of his or her life hereafter in the consciousness that he or she eats or lives for achieving freedom and will die, if need be, to attain that goal. Me. The fact that this incident broke out as it did is very worthy of our pondering. Hailing from a background of slavery and oppression, Sojourner Truth was one of the most revolutionary advocates for womens human rights in the 1800s. That is the political situation as I lay it before you today.. But, this is clearly a tough speaking moment. Just like moons and like suns, It is not enough merely to call for freedom, democracy and human rights. Fifteen former executives, including all five of its recent CFOs, pleaded guilty to accounting fraud.#9: Tyco InternationalCEO Dennis Kozlowski (pictured)and CFO Mark Swartz soaked Tyco for more than $150 million in unearned bonuses and loans from 1996 until 2002. The true peace-keepers are the soldiers who are breaking the terrorists grip around the villages of Vietnamthe civilians who are bringing medical care and food and education to people who have already suffered a generation of war. So we must work and not wait. We help sales & marketing leaders tell their stories in a more powerful way to win business, hearts and minds. Help trainers engage your audiences effectively. Though with recent accusations of the prime minister being My call to the nation is a plea for awareness. In this transformational speech, Virginia Woolf pronounces her vision that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. The United Nations must hold fast to the heritage of freedom won by the struggle of its people; it must help us to pass it on to generations to come. What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. You see, our glorious diversity our diversities of faiths and colors and creeds that is not a threat to who we are, it makes us who we are. Were tired waiting; every time black people move in this country, theyre forced to defend their position before they move. I would like to see every gay lawyer, every gay architect come out, stand up and let the world know. When politicians use hate speech, political violence increases Both Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump have been accused of using hate The reason for the political hesitation, in spite of the Johnson landslide is that one has been betrayed by American politicians for so long. A class action settlement of $7.185 billion was the largest of all time. 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.