Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
[146] [147] This may have been the last time Dr. King gave a variation of his "The Other America" speech over the final 12 months of his life, first delivered on 14 April 1967 at Stanford University, shown above. [110] March 25 Conversation with the Sixty-Eighth Annual Convention of the Rabbinical Assembly: Unknown From the Archival description:
"The Dream Shall Never Die" was a speech delivered by U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy during the 1980 Democratic National Convention at Madison Square Garden, New York City.In his address, Kennedy defended post-World War II liberalism, advocated for a national healthcare insurance model, criticized Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan, and implicitly rebuked incumbent president Jimmy Carter ...
1992: Culture War speech by U.S. conservative Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, in which he described "a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America." 1992: The Redfern Park speech delivered by then Prime Minister of Australia, Paul Keating; the first public acknowledgement by an Australian prime minister of the prejudice ...
But August 28 was not the first time King had uttered the most famous four words from his remarks that day. He had spoken about his dream during speeches in Birmingham and Detroit earlier that ...
Men, all this stuff you hear about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big-league ball players and the toughest boxers.
In the speech, King called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was one of the most famous moments of the civil rights movement and among the most iconic speeches in American history. [3] [4]
Nightly Films takes a look back at the convention speeches that inspired America. Political leaders and their families deliver heartfelt speeches, including a 2004 address by Jenna Bush Hager, now ...
This speech was quickly picked up by pamphleteers and printed in London and Boston, spurring responses both by supporters and critics in a flurry of debate known as the Revolution Controversy. Edmund Burke criticised Price's ideas and defended the British constitution, converting a short text of his own into a longer response, Reflections on ...