Speeches of Note

Speeches of Note, An Eclectic Collection of Orations Deserving of a Wider Audience, by Shaun Usher, Ten SpeedPress 2018 

Not all these speakers are famous, and not all their speeches are what we expect.  Of the 75 speeches included in this collection - works of Frederick Douglass, RFK, Marget Sanger, Albert Einstein, and finally even Meghan Markle, readers will find surprises.

Here are some of the seventy-five stunners:

I killed a solitary man, George Manley, 1738 Wicklow, Ireland

Our spirit refuses to die, Wamsutta (Chief) Frank B. James, never delivered

I have just been shot, Theodore Roosevelt Milwaukee 1912

The heart and stomach of a King, Queen Elizabeth I, 1588

The Women are coming up, Sojourner Truth, 1851

I have Aids, Ryan White, 1988

What to the slave is the fourth of July? Frederick Douglass, 1852

My two favorites are, like speeches in real life, short -  Drop your tails and leave this swamp, Kermit the Frog, 1996, and Our spirit refuses to die, Wamsutta.

Kermit the frog was an unusual guest at Southampton College, being a swamp creature accustomed to large TV audiences, an animal creature delivering a message from his fellow amphibians and mammals,, "On behalf of frogs, fish, pigs, bears and all of the other species lower than you on the food chain, thank you for dedicating your lives to our world and our home...And so I say to you, the 1996 graduates of Southampton College, you are no longer tadpoles.  The time has come for you to drop your tails and leave the swamp.  But I am sure that wherever I go as I travel around the world, I will find each and every one  with each and ever one of you working your tails off to save other swamps and give those of us who live there a chance to survive."