In spite of the New York Anti-Slavery Law of 1827, her slavemaster refused to free her. It is an odious aristocracy; a hateful oligarchy of sex; the most hateful aristocracy ever established on the face of the globe; an oligarchy of wealth, where the right govern the poor. 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. And that job is going to be done. !" They have not earned cruelty, and they do not deserve meanness. It is a distressing and oppressive duty, gentlemen of the Congress, which I have performed in thus addressing you. I rise Let tyrants fear. These are just a few of the many famous people who have been accused of plagiarism over the years. Hope Hope in the face of difficulty. Given the unchallenged political legacy and cult of personality which Stalin left in the Soviet Union, Nikita Khruschevs speech condemning the authoritarian means Stalin had resorted to to consolidate power as un-socialist was an important mark in Russian history. The servicemen and women who love this country so much, they leave those they love most to defend it. Go search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, 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. I'm supposed to be turning Ariel away from her dark side, not indulging her taste for bloodshed. There is no family or community, no race or religion, no place left in America that is safe. What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. Me. 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. Out of the huts of historys shame We dedicate this occasion to the struggle for self-determination of all women, of every color, identification, or derived class: the poet, the housewife, the lesbian, the mathematician, the mother, the dishwasher, the pregnant teen-ager, the teacher, the grandmother, the prostitute, the philosopher, the waitress, the women who will understand what we are doing here and those who will not understand yet; the silent women whose voices have been denied us, the articulate women who have given us strength to do our work.. Dear brothers and sisters, the so-called world of adults may understand it, but we children dont. With this speech setting an effective precedent for her call to equalize women before the law, she also went on to champion the provision of equal educational opportunities to women and girls, and persuasively argued against the patriarchal gender norms which prevented women from finding their own lot in life through their being locked into traditional institutions of marriage and motherhood against their will. This means, said Lenin, that all Party matters are accomplished by all Party members directly or through representatives who, without any exceptions, are subject to the same rules; in addition, all administrative members, all directing collegia, all holders of Party positions are elective, they must account for their activities and are recallable.. Best man speech: Back in high school when Bill It is my belief, and I am sure it is also yours, that the struggle for democracy and freedom is a critical struggle, for their preservation is essential to the great objective of the United Nations to maintain international peace and security. No one race and on one people can claim to have done all the work to achieve greater dignity for human beings and great freedom to develop human personality. During some of the most harrowing periods of human history, the Vietnam War, American soldiers were getting soundly defeated by the Vietnamese in guerrilla warfare. (The pain begins around 3:05). After a mistrial, Kozlowzki and his fellow executives were sent to prison for 25 years.#6: OlympysA $1.7bn fraud at Olympus was unearthed in late 2011 by the camera makers British chief executive. Unsurprisingly, Martin Luther Kings speech comes up top as the most inspiring speech of all time, especially given the harrowing conditions of African Americans in America at the time. Above all, My Lord, we want equal political rights, because without them our disabilities will be permanent. Into a daybreak thats wondrously clear If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! Co-founder and Head of training at HighSpark, Kai Xin's super power is to empower high-performing individuals win more hearts and minds through persuasive communications. Back when AIDS research was still undeveloped, the stigma of contracting HIV was even more immense than it is today. 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. He who loses his life will gain it; he who will seek to save it shall lose it. Today, China is an economic superpower, far from its war-torn developing country status before Dengs leadership thanks to his foresight in ensuring political stability would allow China to enjoy the fruits of the massive changes they adapted to. Our own present culture has harnessed these forces in ways that have yielded extraordinary wealth and comfort and personal freedom. Most companies have ethics and compliance policies that get reviewed and signed annually by all employees. Music if Fun You may shoot me with your words, Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. She calls out the years in which women have been deprived of their own space for individual development through being chained to traditional arrangements or mens prescriptions demanding gigantic courage and confidence in oneself to brave through the onerous struggle of creating change for womens rights. 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. After these delegates convene, we will hold a seminar; we will hold discussions; we will listen to everyone. to one of his many girlfriends after discovering she was p They are human. It is a struggle for the right to live. Her powerful writing and speech about living on the margins of society has enlightened millions of people discriminated across various intersections, confronting them with the reality that they must speak since their silence will not protect them from further marginalization. Teach them, in common with man, to submit to necessity, instead of giving, to render them more pleasing, a sex to morals. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first learn to liberate their own minds from apathy and fear.. To his credit, Mr. Jones does give it his best shot, despite the difficulty of having every speaker before him take most of his material. We have 24 hours in this presence, and so you and I. What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? That serves to explain in part the necessity that women so often are to men. Chief Joseph, "Surrender Speech" 6. Because I did not inject drugs, I was not at risk. His speeches were resolute, eloquent, and courageous, inspiring the hope and admiration of many not just within India, but around the world. In fact, thats why people first came to this country to worship freely. Want to rise in your career and grow your business like the leaders we interview? We are, let me say again, the sincere friends of the German people, and shall desire nothing so much as the early reestablishment of intimate relations of mutual advantage between ushowever hard it may be for them, for the time being, to believe that this is spoken from our hearts. Dont you take it awful hard What makes this clip so disheartening is how he fires off very personal insults to his congregation, telling one person, youre not worth $0.15 only to counter that a few seconds later by saying, do you know I love you, sir?. 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. 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.. Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Even if you have to wing-it, nobody is going to notice your mistakes unless you blatantly point them out. He encouraged hundreds of students to develop freedom of thought, a heart of sacrificial care for those in need of justice, and a consciousness that would serve them in discerning the right choices to make within a status quo that is easy to fall in line with. All of us driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just wont do that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be. The reason for the political hesitation, in spite of the Johnson landslide is that one has been betrayed by American politicians for so long. 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. 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.. With her iconic poem Still I Rise, Maya Angelou is well-known for uplifting fellow African American women through her empowering novels and poetry and her work as a civil rights activist. And you have a right to be exactly who you are. And pleased, though I know I shouldn't be. Let him not think that debate and dissent will produce wavering and withdrawal. 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. 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. With your bitter, twisted lies, Given the dangerous times he was in as an openly gay man, he anticipated that he would be assassinated eventually in his political career. A forceful and impressive orator, Stokely Carmichael was among those at the forefront of the civil rights movement, who was a vigorous socialist organizer as well. If you do not see this killer stalking your children, look again. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. I cannot prevent some people from feeling angry and frustrated and mad in response to my death, but I hope they will take the frustration and madness and instead of demonstrating or anything of that type, I would hope that they would take the power and I would hope that five, ten, one hundred, a thousand would rise. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? The lesson here is to never make fun at the expense of your customers, by making them appear foolish. Life for both sexes and I looked at them (through a restaurant window while waiting for my lunch to be served), shouldering their way along the pavement is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mothers grief, none but Jesus heard me! Using brilliant rhetorical devices like metonymy, meronymy, and other potent metaphors, she voiced her deeply-held commitment as a leader to the battle against the Spanish Armada convincing the English army to keep holding their ground and upholding the sacrifice of war for the good of their people. The meeting was organised to discuss the best course of action for restoring social and political order to China, given the sweeping economic reforms that had taken place in the past decade that inevitably resulted in some social resistance from the populace. Harrisons passing made him famous for another reason he had the shortest presidency in U.S. history 31 days. For he wont. This then is what the ANC is fighting. This revolution has to change consciousness, to upset the injustice of our current hierarchy by refusing to honor it, and to live a life that enforces a new social justice. I am the dream and the hope of the slave. Ignore the idea that you disagree with the premise of his main points and focus entirely on his persuasive appeals. 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. During a speech to the Institute of Directors on April 23, 1991, Mr. Ratner poked fun at his companys cheap image by joking that the reason his prices were so low was because some items were, total crap. He successfully galvanised his people against the British, taking endless risks through nationalist speeches and demonstrations which gradually bore fruit in Burmas independence. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. On 4 July 1852, Frederick Douglass gave this speech in Rochester, New York, highlighting the hypocrisy of celebrating freedom while slavery continues. As the first openly gay elected official in the history of California, Harvey Milks entire political candidature was in itself a radical statement against the homophobic status quo at the time. Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.. Ever the favourite modern First Lady of America, Michelle Obama has delivered an abundance of iconic speeches in her political capacity, never forgetting to foreground the indomitable human spirit embodied in American citizens everyday lives and efforts towards a better world. But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talk about much in the great outside world of wanting and achieving. That I dance like Ive got diamonds Implement better measures for better outcomes, 2. A celebrated artist, author and speaker, Mary Fisher became an outspoken activist for those with HIV/AIDS, persuading people to extend compassion to the population with HIV instead of stigmatizing them as injustice has a way of coming around to people eventually. Harry doesnt need the money, but apparently he needs something else: revenge, probably. It may sound incredible, especially to Swiss comrades, but it is nevertheless true that in Russia, also, not only bloody tsarism, not only the capitalists, but also a section of the so-called or ex-Socialists say that Russia is fighting a war of defence, that Russia is only fighting against German invasion. Because people with HIV have not entered some alien state of being. 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. If you believe you are safe, you are in danger. Never tell people whats wrong with your speech, while youre giving it! Look at my arm! I have a dream by MLK. Bowed head and lowered eyes? A speech giving hints on how to cheat on your income tax. A speech suggesting ways to create false rumors about a co-worker you want to get fired. In the mean time, my lieutenant general shall be in my stead, than whom never prince commanded a more noble or worthy subject; not doubting but by your obedience to my general, by your concord in the camp, and your valour in the field, we shall shortly have a famous victory over these enemies of my God, of my kingdom, and of my people.. I call upon my fellow children to stand up around the world. I rise The glories of all our wars would be on the remains of mutton bones and bartering flints for sheepskins or whatever simple ornament took our unsophisticated taste. She wisely and gracefully remarks that love begins at home from the individual actions of each person within their private lives, which accumulate into a life of goodness and charity. His captivating speech on what it meant to truly be educated tugged at the hearts of many young and critical minds striving to achieve their dreams and change the world. A crucial leader in the fight for civil rights, he opened the eyes of thousands of Black Americans, politicising and convincing them of the necessity of fighting for their democratic rights against white supremacists. We should have not one bit of forgiveness for them. She was recently one of the only 20 Singaporeans to be honoured on the Forbes30Under30 Asia list. The specific purpose of her speech was to persuade a group of wildlife By the 1850s, she became involved in the womens rights movement as well. #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. Im talking about something more substantial. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.. It must indeed be one of the great sources of his power.Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. 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. The Conflict in Syria. 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. In it, Mr. Jones commits one of the greatest public speaking faux pas. Additionally, he said the earrings sold in his stores were cheaper than a sub sandwich, but probably wouldnt last as long. After the speech, the Ratner Groups market value collapsed literally overnight, losing approximately $750 million in a matter of days.Customers simply stopped associating themselves with the low-cost jeweler and the company almost went bankrupt. 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