Barack Obama Speech At Nelson Mandela Memorial--12/10/2013
Malala Yousafzais's Speech to the UN--7/12/2013
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony's Suffrage Speeches
Martin Luther King, Jr--"I Have a Dream"--8/28/1963
John Fitzgerald Kennedy--Inaugural Address--1/20/1961
("Ask not what your country can do for you...")
Franklin Delano Roosevelt--1st Inaugural Address--3/4/1933
("We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.")
Franklin Delano Roosevelt--The Four Freedoms Speech--1/6/1941
Barbara Charline Jordan--DNC Keynote Speech--7/12/1976
Richard Milhous Nixon--"Checkers Speech"--9/23/1952
("...regardless of what they say, we're going to keep it.")
Malcolm X--"The Ballot or the Bullet"--4/12/1964
("It'll be the ballot or it'll be the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death.
And if you're not ready to pay that price, don't use the word 'freedom' in your vocabulary.")
Ronald Wilson Reagan--Challenger Disaster Address--1/28/1986
("...waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.'')
John Fitzgerald Kennedy--Houston Ministers Speech--9/12/1960
(...if this election is decided on the basis that 40 million Americans lost their chance of being president on the day they were baptized, then it is the whole nation that will be the loser.")
Lyndon Baines Johnson--"We Shall Overcome"--3/15/1965
Bob Uecker--Hall of Fame Acceptance Speech--2003
("...we had a nice-enough neighbor who came over and filled it with air... and what a difference that made.")
Patrick Henry--"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" Speech--3/23/1775
Abraham Lincoln--"The Gettysburg Address"--6/1/1863
("...these dead shall not have died in vain.")
Robert Emmet--"Speech from the Dock of Court"--9/19/1803
("Let no man write my epitaph.")
Speech Analysis Assignment