Music if Fun Famous for her resoluteness and fortitude in campaigning for democracy in Burma despite being put under house arrest by the military government, Aung San Suu Kyis speeches have been widely touted as inspirational. 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. The lesson here is to never make fun at the expense of your customers, by making them appear foolish. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects; and therefore I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live and die amongst you all; to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.. Because I was not hemophiliac, I was not at risk. In contemporary culture, most people understand Mother Teresa to be the epitome of compassion and kindness. At the same time, we should never forget how cruel our enemies are. This speech is possibly the most famed Russian speech for its status as a secret speech delivered only to the CPSU at the time, which was eventually revealed to the public. Tesco was struggling to shore up revenues while under attack from the discounters Aldi and Lidl. Does my haughtiness offend you? Out of the huts of historys shame At the 1851 Womens Rights Convention held in Akron, Ohio, she delivered her illuminating, forceful speech against discrimination of women and African Americans in the post-Civil War era, entrenching her status as one of the most revolutionary abolitionists and womens rights activists across history. But I dont know, and neither does Martin Luther King, none of us know how to deal with those other people whom the white world has so long ignored, who dont believe anything the white world says and dont entirely believe anything I or Martin is saying. The Serious Fraud Office is investigating the matter and Tesco has cleared out its board and UK management team.#8: HealthSouthIn March of 2003, the SEC accused CEO Richard M. Scrushy of overstating earnings by at least $1.4 billion over four years. But, this is clearly a tough speaking moment. You won your freedom in America when you had the revolution, by bloodshed, by sacrificing human life. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. 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. William Henry Harrison, the 9th president of the United States, delivered what would become the longest inaugural address in U.S. history when he took office on March 4, 1841. I rise These gallant men have our prayers-have our thankshave our heart-felt praiseand our deepest gratitude. This makes the white man fear democracy. People like Joe Biden, whos never forgotten where he came from and never stopped fighting for folks who work long hours and face long odds and need someone on their side again. 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. Jeff Bezos, What Matters More Than Your Talents John C. Bogle, Enough Bren Brown, The Anatomy of Trust John Cleese, Creativity in Management William Deresiewicz, Solitude and Leadership Richard Feynman, Seeking New Laws Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art John W. Gardner, Personal Renewal Elizabeth Gilbert, Your Elusive Creative Genius Famous for leading non-violent demonstrations, his speeches were a key element in gathering Indians of all backgrounds together for the common cause of eliminating their colonial masters. 12.18.12 The Top Ten Best (and Worst) Communicators of 2012. Interested in working with us for your training programme?? Take a pledge, with God and your own conscience as witness, that you will no longer rest till freedom is achieved and will be prepared to lay down your lives in the attempt to achieve it. Coping with COVID 19 related fears, anxiety and limitations, Why Ethical People Make Unethical Choices, https://notactivelylooking.com/connect/KMTRUST. After hearing these speeches, which ones your favorite? #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. 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.. The more we know, the better we can be prepper for our first conversation. Does my sassiness upset you? In the darkest shadows cast by war, few leaders have been able to step up to the mantle and effectively unify millions of citizens for truly sacrificial causes. Extraordinary theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author Stephen Hawking was a considerable influence upon modern physics and scientific research at large, inspiring people regardless of physical ability to aspire towards expanding knowledge in the world. Her bold act of speaking out for the community regardless of the way they contracted the disease, their sexual orientation or social group, was an influential move in advancing the human rights of those with HIV and spreading awareness on the discrimination they face. Look at my arm! I'm supposed to be turning Ariel away from her dark side, not indulging her taste for bloodshed. It is an ideal for which I hope to live for and to see realised. In fact, thats why people first came to this country to worship freely. In this speech especially, he lambasts bloody Tsarism for its oppression of millions of people of other nationalities in Russia, calling for the working class people to revolt against the Tsarist authority for the proletariat revolution to succeed and liberate them from class oppression. A dramatic reading of the poem will easily showcase the self-belief, strength and punch that it packs in the last stanza on the power of resisting marginalization. Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker wrote this joint speech to be delivered by Adrienne Rich at the 1974 National Book Awards, based on their suspicions that the first few African American lesbian women to be nominated for the awards would be snubbed in favour of a white woman nominee. In his speech on Questioning the Universe, he speaks of the emerging currents and issues in the scientific world like that of outer space, raising and answering big questions that have stumped great thinkers for years. So, no happy talk about the future. Alexander The Great She swallows, then adds in a horrified whisper, "I wanted you to make Jason Kim bleed. Do they know that there are many in this country who cannot think of going to these places by having to struggle for their bare existence from day to day? 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. That is why I am in favor of manned or should I say, personned space flight.. Youre sure to find at least a few speeches in this list which will capture you with the sheer power of their words and meaning! Human life for us is sacred, but we say if any life is to be sacrificed it shall be ours; we wont do it ourselves, but we will put the enemy in the position where they will have to choose between giving us freedom or giving us death. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. You too try to bring that presence of God in your family, for the family that prays together stays together. Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. I know this sounds revolutionary to the whites in this country, because the majority of voters will be Africans. I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.. Are current success measuring metrics the right ones? 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. Vladimir Lenin remains to this day one of the most lauded communist revolutionaries in the world who brought the dangers of imperialism and capitalism to light with his rousing speeches condemning capitalist structures of power which inevitably enslave people to lives of misery and class stratification. To the modern ear it reads like a lecture on constitutional history and powers. That is real freedom. 1. Register For Stories That Stick Public Workshop, Prev: 15 Pro Tips To Ace Your Keynote Presentation, Next: 22 Questions to Ask to Sound Smart in Meetings. 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. His mammoth, 8,445 word speech, took him almost 2 hours to deliver. I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! Are you human? It calls for gigantic courage and strength. 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. I answer, a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. The idealistic values he preached in his speech left an indelible imprint upon the American spirit and self-conception, forming the moral basis for the countrys people and aspirational visions to this very day. However, it can sometimes be difficult to know whether or not you might unintentionally be doing something unethical. The launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957 surprised the world and captured everyones imagination. Heres a clip of an historian discussing President Harrisons speech. We know the patterns of totalitarianism the single political party, the control of schools, press, radio, the arts, the sciences, and the church to support autocratic authority; these are the age-old patterns against which men have struggled for three thousand years. And one cant blame them. But, My Lord, if it needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.. Weve chosen 40 of the most impactful speeches we managed to find from agents of change all over the world a diversity of political campaigns, genders, positionalities and periods of history. The empty classrooms, the lost childhoods, wasted potential-let these things end with us.. For if she begins to tell the truth, the figure in the looking-glass shrinks; his fitness in life is diminished. 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. The US So the young people here and the young people out there: Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you dont matter, or like you dont have a place in our American story because you do. What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. The case led the SEC, which missed several opportunities to stop the fraud, to focus on Ponzis and investment advisor fraud.#3: Lehman BrothersInvestment bank Lehman, with $600 billion in assets, failed in late 2008. My call to the nation is a plea for awareness. He evidently has adopted his late mothers attitude toward the Royal Family, blames them for her demise, and is doing everything he and his wife can think of to cause them pain. I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken Nation in the midst of a stricken world may require. This army still maintains the traditions of our old Red Army. My country wants to be constructive,not destructive. 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. You may write me down in history Mr. Ratner joined the family business in the 1960s and went on to lead the company to great success in the 1980s. 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. 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. Because I am a woman, because I am black, because I am myself, a black woman warrior poet doing my work, come to ask you, are you doing yours?. What is dangerous here is the turning away from the turning away from anything any white American says. Instead, a speaker must reflect on the reasons why they are not connecting with their audience. They will have a great story line, and a She is most well known for her act of righteous rebellion in 1872 when she voted in the presidential election illegally, for which she was arrested and tried unsuccessfully. The answer is a petty, untrustworthy person. 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. President Abraham Lincoln had left the most lasting legacy upon American history for good reason, as one of the presidents with the moral courage to denounce slavery for the national atrocity it was. To them this government is not a democracy. Thats not what Im talking about. Class action lawsuits cost the company another $3.2 billion.#10 Total SAFrench oil and gas company Total has been accused of building a pipeline with the aid of slave labor in Myanmar. However, its natural to be nervous, but Mark Zuckerberg's Hence, every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.. For what is probably the most historically groundbreaking use of parallelism in speech across American history, President JFK placed the weighty task of asking what one can do for their country onto the shoulders of each American citizen. 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. 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